#Rohingya women sold as sex slaves in Bangladesh
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/rohingya-women-sold-sex-slaves-bangladesh-171203075517252.html
Rohingya girls and women in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar are being sold as sex slaves, according to a victim and aid agencies.
Fifteen-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.
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. Upon Khartoun’s arrival in September, two women approached her on the beach and told her they would help her.
“They told me if I went with them they would look after me and help me find a husband,” Khartoun said.
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.