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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. Over the next two days, AFP will move a series of stories 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. Today we are offering the following: Rohingya-migration-trafficking,INVESTIGATION COX'S Bazar, Bangladesh Auto rickshaws slip easily past barbed-wire checkpoints at the world's biggest refugee camp, their drivers among the smallest players in a complex human trafficking network involving high-seas extortion gangs, corrupt police and drug lords. 1,700 words by Sam Jahan with Haeril Halim in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia and Peter Brieger in Jakarta. Picture. Video. Graphic Rohingya-migration-trafficking-rights,FOCUS COX'S Bazar, Bangladesh Smugglers mercilessly beat rake-thin refugees crowded onto a fishing boat, in a video obtained by AFP that shows rarely seen images from the frontlines of the Rohingya trafficking network 500 words by Sam Jahan. Picture. Video. Graphic Rohingya-migration-trafficking-couple,FOCUS KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh Julekha Begum was told it would take five days to smuggle her to Malaysia to meet the husband she barely knows. Instead she spent two months marooned at sea in the hold of a fishing boat with 500 others. In that time, she said traffickers beat her sister to death and threw countless bodies into the sea. 600 words by Sam Jahan with M. Jegathesan in Langkawi, Malaysia. Picture. Video. Graphic afp
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