Samira, a 45-year-old Rohingya woman, shared her experience with our team: “A new mother who had just given birth to her baby was placed in our vehicle as I was travelling to a clinic a few days ago. She was discharged from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital after labour without having her stitches removed and was told to go to Hope hospital to have them removed because it was closer. She was on her way to Hope Hospital that day to have her stitches removed. When we arrived at a checkpoint, a group of police officers stopped our vehicle and ordered all of us to get out. Because the new mother was still in poor health and unable to walk, the driver requested that the vehicle be let go for the sake of the woman. The police smashed his face with powerful slaps from both sides and dragged him out of the vehicle as soon as he said this to them. Everyone was brutally removed from the vehicle by hitting them on their heads. Seeing the woman in such critical condition, I bravely requested of the police that they release the vehicle carrying the woman so that she could reach the hospital and begged them to have mercy on her. The police officer’s yell rattled my entire body at that moment. They then removed the woman as well. There was nothing we could do. They will hit anyone because they don’t care who is a man, who is a woman, who is weak, and who is a patient. After that, everyone, including the new mother, had to wait for about an hour and a half for another vehicle to arrive. Is there anything worse than this kind of persecution?” “They will hit anyone because they don’t care who is a man, who is a woman, who is weak, and who is a patient. After that, everyone, including the new mother, had to wait for about an hour and a half for another vehicle to arrive. Is there anything worse than this kind of persecution?”