Burma Human Rights Network’s report: “We also have dreams” A young girl in camp 8W The journey she describes includes a period of time where her sisters were stuck at sea and left adrift until they were found by Indonesian authorities. Events like those she described have made the news several times in recent years, where boats full of Rohingya refugees face engine failure, or traffickers remain at sea while trying to extort money from passengers’ family members. It is typical that passengers on these journeys bring only minimal supplies with them and dehydration, starvation, and illness become serious problems during the voyage. Refugees told BHRN that on these journeys people would become very sick or even die from only being able to eat uncooked rice over long periods of time. A 35-year-old woman told BHRN about her two sisters, aged 25 and 19, who were trafficked to India by brokers for arranged marriages, “Both of them are living together. One of them has a husband with her. We got another married here, but her husband abandoned her. So, I sent her with another sister. Since our father has passed away, I thought that she would be ill-treated if I got her married in the hands of our brothers. So, I sent her with her sister...They are living in Jammu in India. They went with the help of the brokers. As they could not go on their own and they are just women, and they do not have any adult men with them...Yes, they faced many problems. Even, the clothes that my sisters were wearing were snatched completely. We gave them some money for the journey. Even this pocket money was stolen. Currently, my sisters do not have clothes to wear since all clothes have been stolen completely. The brokers tried to take my nephew and my younger sister to the forest, but spared them after being seen by others. My sisters faced many problems and suffered a lot. We had to pay a ransom to get my sisters released...Yes, my sisters were harmed by the brokers. The brokers sometimes kept them in the bushes, sometimes in remote houses, and www.bhrn.org.uk 33