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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kristen Gelineau

Kidnapped, married off, robbed of hope: US aid cuts contribute to exploitation of Rohingya children

Foreign Aid The Lost Children - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

In moments when she is alone, when there is a break in the beatings from her husband, the girl cries for the school that was once her place of peace in a world that has otherwise offered her none.

Ever since the military in her homeland of Myanmar killed her father in 2017, forcing her to flee to neighboring Bangladesh with her mother and little sisters, the school had protected Hasina from the predators who prowl her refugee camp, home to 1.2 million members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority.

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