Rohingya’s 200 days of terror


One camp to another: A group of Rohingya women and children sitting in close quarters after landing in Lhokseumawe in Aceh province. ­— AP

When hundreds of Rohingya refugees paid traffickers to escape their squalid camp in Bangladesh, they were promised a new life after just one week at sea.

Instead, the group of mostly women and children suffered more than 200 days of terror on the high seas, until they landed this week on Indonesia’s northern coast, where they are now back in refugee tents.

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