

I will kill you … Do you want to be killed the way the military kill people in Myanmar? I won’t let you go,'” Khartoun told Al Jazeera. “He said ‘I will choke you, I will stab you. Instead, she was locked up for three weeks and sold to a Bangladeshi man, who she said, raped her and sexually abused her for 12 days. “They told me if I went with them they would look after me and help me find a husband,” Khartoun said. Upon Khartoun’s arrival in September, two women approached her on the beach and told her they would help her. She was alone – her mother, father and sister had been killed by a mortar shell fired by the Myanmar military during a sweeping crackdown against Rohingya people. Rohingya girls and women in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar are being sold as sex slaves, according to a victim and aid agencies.įifteen-year-old Khartoun* told Al Jazeera she was sold into sex slavery after she arrived in Bangladesh by boat to escape a brutal military crackdown.
