Arakan News Desk: Aasia (pseudonym), 16 and her eight family members moved to Bangladesh in 2017 following persecution by the Myanmar military in Rakhine state. She moved into Muchuni Camp in Cox’s Bazar with her grandparents and siblings after losing her parents.
After five years, Sanjida (45), a Rohingya refugee who lives in Camp-4 Kutupalong, assured her that she would be given a work as a cleaner at a hotel. But in the end, she was compelled to work as a sex slave.
“Sonchida sold me here for forty thousand taka. I couldn’t do anything when I came to know that later,”, She couldn’t leave this work later because of she get life threat from sex trade owner. Asia is now sixteen years old, yet she appears like an adult. Asia claims that this is because of Oradexon, a steroid drug, known as red pill among the locals.
Like Asia, many other Rohingya refugee women find themselves at different cottages at Kolatoli in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh’s southern district that gave refuge to more than one million Rohingya refugees since the violent crackdown on the Muslim ethnic groups in Rakhine state, Myanmar in 2017.
Rohingya women residing in the camps in Cox’s Bazar end up in the hands of cottage owners who runs the illegal sex trade after they are offered jobs there.
In a 2017 BBC article, it was revealed that Rohingya women are being forced into prostitution by people who take advantage of their vulnerability. Other International media also show this scenario.
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