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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Ruma Paul, Sudipto Ganguly and Krishna N. Das

Surging crime, bleak future push Rohingya in Bangladesh to risk lives at sea

Barbed wire is seen on the side of a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, December 30, 2022. REUTERS/Ruma Paul

Mohammed Ismail says four of his relatives were killed by gunmen at the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh between April and October last year. He recalls the September night when, he says, he almost met the same fate: masked men kidnapped him, cut off parts of his left arm and leg and dumped him in a canal.

"They repeatedly asked me why I gave their personal details to the police," Ismail, seated on a plastic mat with his left limbs covered in white bandage and cloth, told Reuters at the Kutupalong refugee camp. "I kept telling them I didn't know anything about them and had not provided any information."

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