Burma Human Rights Network’s report: “We also have dreams” telling the people in the camps not to send away their daughters like this. That’s why the brokers are afraid of talking to us or coming to the camps as they might be beaten up here.” The predatory nature of the traffickers and the vigilante response of refugees were predictable and avoidable. The same cycle is likely going to continue but intervention by Bangladesh authorities, the international community, and NGOs on the ground could reduce the severity of the problem. If refugees' basic needs are better met, the ability to work and travel freely is granted, and a path for them to return to Burma or be resettled into a third country is genuinely pursued, the desperation making refugees to try to flee through traffickers would be drastically reduced. What is lacking is the sense of urgency among decision-makers to galvanize the support needed for change to happen. Trafficking and kidnapping sometimes can be linked, in part because people who think they are dealing with good-hearted smugglers end up stuck with traffickers who sell them into slavery and extort large sums of money from their families. There are also instances where people leave with traffickers without informing their families. www.bhrn.org.uk 37