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Tanbirul Miraj RIPON with Shafiqul ALAM in Dhaka

Rohingya Forced To Fight Alongside Myanmar Army Tormentors

Families of those dragooned into combat say their relatives had no choice (Credit: AFP)

Rohingya mother Sofura Begum has spent years in a squalid refugee camp after fleeing Myanmar. Now her teenage son has been taken to fight alongside the troops that put her there.

Militant Rohingya groups in Bangladesh have forcibly recruited hundreds of young Rohingya men and boys to battle the Arakan Army, a rebel outfit in neighbouring Myanmar that has won a string of victories against the junta there.

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