ROHINGYA WOMEN IN REFUGEE CAMPS ARE FORCED TO MARRY MEN THEY DON’T KNOW
Thousands of Rohingya women in refugee camps are forced to marry men they don’t know thousands of kilometres away in Malaysia via virtual weddings. These Rohingya women have little say in such unions.
For many Rohingya women who are fleeing violent persecution in Myanmar, arranged marriages are a bleak choice
They have two options: to stay in a squalid refugee camp - hopeless, starving and made to feel a burden or leave risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea and reach a husband they've never met
Desperate parents are marrying off their daughters to Rohingya men thousands of kilometres away in Maiaysia via virtual weddings, as conditions deteriorate in increasingly overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps
For many Rohingya women who are fleeing violent persecution in Myanmar, arranged marriages are a bleak choice
They have two options: to stay in a squalid refugee camp - hopeless, starving and made to feel a burden or leave risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea and reach a husband they've never met
Desperate parents are marrying off their daughters to Rohingya men thousands of kilometres away in Maiaysia via virtual weddings, as conditions deteriorate in increasingly overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps
"My parents kept asking me to find a way to reach Malaysia. Living with them, I was just an extra mouth to feed"
-Jannat Ara
Jannat has never met the man she married via a phone call from the refugee camp. but after mounting pressure from relatives to seek him out, she decided to leave
Her clandestine route took her via a rickshaw to port, and from a small boat to a packed, dilapidated trawler
But Malaysia denied her entry, and after floating at sea for two months and seeing many people die, she returned to the place where she started
Over 100,000 Rohingya are currently registered with the UN in Malaysia. But as they are denied citizenship, they remain in limbo. Most are unable to find local wives, which is driving the demand for women and girls from the Bangladeshi camps
Rohingya men in Malaysia pay smugglers to bring over families or new brides as part of arranged marriages, according to advocacy groups and women involved
Charities warn that families in camps can be easily tricked, mistaking human traffickers and pimps for matchmakers who offer brighter futures
-Jannat Ara
Jannat has never met the man she married via a phone call from the refugee camp. but after mounting pressure from relatives to seek him out, she decided to leave
Her clandestine route took her via a rickshaw to port, and from a small boat to a packed, dilapidated trawler
But Malaysia denied her entry, and after floating at sea for two months and seeing many people die, she returned to the place where she started
Over 100,000 Rohingya are currently registered with the UN in Malaysia. But as they are denied citizenship, they remain in limbo. Most are unable to find local wives, which is driving the demand for women and girls from the Bangladeshi camps
Rohingya men in Malaysia pay smugglers to bring over families or new brides as part of arranged marriages, according to advocacy groups and women involved
Charities warn that families in camps can be easily tricked, mistaking human traffickers and pimps for matchmakers who offer brighter futures
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