35 “Rahim Ullah,” 16, told Fortify Rights: I travelled on the cargo ship. I was very scared. The ship was shaking, and the waves were large . . . The [Malay] captain of the boat beat most of us. He was continuously beating us with a [wooden] bat for no reason. He did it every day. The captain was with seven other men. Four were Rohingya. Two were Rakhine. They beat us with belts too. They hit me with a belt on my forehead . . . The orders were to not move around. But we sat very cramped on the journey, and sometimes, we were very tired. We’d try to shake our legs and hands and the crew would be unhappy. They would continuously beat us with a belt. 63 “Mohammed Yunus,” 26, explained to Fortify Rights the conditions on the ship on which he was confined: [My friend] had so many injuries. [The traffickers] stuck a nail in his arm so many times, and they hit him with the rope many times. They held a nail in their hands and stabbed him with it many times. We had to stay all together, side by side. If we tried to leave from there, the dallal would come and beat us so much. I was crying for nearly five days for my parents . . . “If you cannot pay 1,000 Malaysian Ringgit (US$300), we will sell you to another boat,” they said. Someone had a gun, threatening to shoot us, but they didn’t do that. They didn’t shoot us.64 Fortify Rights spoke with several women and girls who witnessed traffickers beat men and boys at sea. “Fatima,” 20, said traffickers beat her husband while they were at sea: The dallals beat people who asked for more food or water, including my husband. The dallals beat my husband at least five times. They hit him with a stick, and he suffered some bleeding and injuries. Some people were so thirsty, they started drinking seawater.65 “Rohima,” 19, fled Myanmar’s Maungdaw Township in 2014 and spent eight days at sea before reaching the Malaysia-Thailand border. She also witnessed beatings: Sometimes people would ask for water, and the dallals would beat them with pieces of wire and long pipes. One Rohingya man was bleeding from the head after a dallal hit him across the head with a pipe. Three other Rohingya men had injuries on their arms and back from being beaten by the dallals. One Rohingya man was beaten so badly that he couldn’t speak. There were seven dallals on the boat, including five Thais and two Rohingya.66 “Anuya,” 19, and her husband fled Rakhine State after Myanmar state security forces and local extremists razed her village in Sittwe Township in 2012. She told Fortify Rights how traffickers threatened women on the ships, saying: The dallal took us to a small boat [in Rakhine State]. There were 30 of us on the boat. We were all Rohingya and only six of us were women. After sailing for five hours in the small boat, we came to a bigger boat. We waited for 13 days on this boat while the dallals collected more passengers. Once there were about 360 people on board, we finally started to move. It took us five days to reach Thailand. The dallals on the boat were all Shan [an ethnic group from Myanmar]. We were not allowed to move freely on the boat. They told us, “If you move, we will beat you.” The dallal kicked and hit the men with a big plastic stick. They also yelled at the women, and some women were beaten.67 “Kaledah,” 18, saw traffickers beat men as they disembarked from the ship onto smaller boats after arriving in Thai waters. She told Fortify Rights: 63 Fortify Rights interview with #10, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 11, 2014. 64 Fortify Rights interview with #121, Sittwe Township, Rakhine State, Myanmar, May 26, 2015. 65 Fortify Rights interview with #75, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 27, 2014. 66 Fortify Rights interview with #77, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 27, 2014. 67 Fortify Rights interview with #79, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 28, 2014.