Aceh, Indonesia
CNN
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Hatemon Nesa weeps as she clings to her 5-year-old daughter, Umme Salima, at a rescue shelter in Indonesia’s Aceh province. Their faces seem gaunt, their eyes sullen, after drifting for weeks at sea on a ship with little meals or water.
“My skin was rotting off and my bones were visible,” Nesa stated. “I thought I would die on that boat.”
Nesa additionally cries for her 7-year-old daughter, Umme Habiba, who she says she was compelled to go away behind in Bangladesh – she couldn’t afford any greater than the $1,000 the traffickers demanded to move her and her youngest youngster to Malaysia. “My heart is burning for my daughter,” she stated.
Nesa and Umme Salima had been amongst round 200 Rohingya, members of a persecuted Muslim minority, who launched into the harmful voyage in late November from Cox’s Bazar, a sprawling refugee camp in Bangladesh crowded…
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