Images: Chapter 2. Trafficking Networks, Captivity and Ransom
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Foyas, 20, and Ula Mya, 43, fled internment camps in Myanmar in 2013, boarding a ship they believed would take them to Malaysia. Thai authorities raided their group and detained them for nine months before transferring them to human traffickers. Traffickers, in turn, enslaved and tortured them for approximately three weeks in a remote camp in Thailand, demanding 6,800 Ringgit (US$2,000) for their release. ©Fortify Rights, Pahang State, Malaysia, August 13, 2014
Rohingya men and children aboard a boat drifting off Koh Lipe, Thailand, in the Andaman Sea on 14 May 2015. Photograph: Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images.