My desperate journey with a human smuggler
Barat Ali Batoor
Photojournalist Barat Ali Batoor was living in #Afghanistan — until his risky work forced him to leave the country. But for Batoor, a member of a displaced ethnic group called the #Hazara, moving home to Pakistan proved dangerous too. And finding a safer place wasn’t as simple as buying a plane ticket. Instead, he was forced to pay a human #smuggler, and join the deadly tidal wave of migrants seeking asylum by boat. He documents the harrowing ocean trip with powerful photographs.
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