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| - The recent landings of hundreds of Muslim Rohingya in Indonesia after many months at sea under appalling conditions were a stark illustration of the desperate risks many are prepared to take to escape the grim deprivation of life in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh. AFP is moving a series of stories over two days based on an exhaustive, months-long investigation into the covert and multi-layered criminal network that runs the Rohingya refugee smuggling operation. The result of scores of interviews with traffickers, their victims, security personnel and human trafficking experts in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia, the stories reveal the inner workings of the illicit network, and the human impact of its often brutal efficiency. They also focus on a new trend fuelling the trafficking - young, vulnerable women pressured into undertaking the perilous voyage in an effort to reach Rohingya husbands in Malaysia who they married over video links and have never actually met. The stories are illustrated by powerful images from camps in Bangladesh and Indonesia, exclusive footage of the kind of violence meted out to refugees on packed fishing boats on the open sea and graphics mapping the maritime smuggling routes. AFP is offering the following on Wednesday, the final day of the package: Rohingya-migration-trafficking-brides,SPECIALREPORT KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh Stay in a squalid refugee camp, hopeless and starving, or leave, risking death, rape and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met. This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing persecution in Myanmar, are now facing. 1,300 words by Sam Jahan, with Haeril Halim in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia and Sam Reeves in Kuala Lumpur. Picture. Video. Graphic Rohingya-migration-trafficking-family,FOCUS LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia Weeks after a funeral for the wife and daughter he thought had died at sea while trying to sail to him, Nemah Shah was stunned when he saw online images of them emerging from a refugee boat in Indonesia. 550 words by Haeril Halim. Picture. Video. Graphic We moved on Tuesday: Rohingya-migration-trafficking,INVESTIGATION Rohingya-migration-trafficking-rights,FOCUS Rohingya-migration-trafficking-couple,FOCUS afp
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