51 all the people in the camp were made to surround them. They said, “We are beating them, because they tried to escape.” I saw this happen four or five times. They tied their hands and feet and then beat them from the back and the front. After they were beaten, [the traffickers] put some medicine on them and told them, “Don’t do this. We invested in you, so we can earn money. Don’t do this again.”167 He went on to say: “We felt very scared. We sat [in a crouching position]. The [guards] had guns. We were very scared. Sometimes, they used the guns to warn us.”168 Ula Mya, 43, similarly told Fortify Rights of the traffickers abusing a captive that tried to escape, saying: “One person tried to escape and the dallals cut him on his hand and feet. He tried to escape, and they followed and caught him. They [dallals] were Shan people.”169 Foyas, 20, witnessed the same incident in 2014: One person tried to escape, and [the traffickers] cut his hand and feet. I saw that happen. They had knives and pistols and wooden sticks. If someone tried to escape and they saw them, they’d beat them very hard . . . There were 20-30 [armed] guards.170 “Sayad,” 27, who spent one month in a human-trafficking camp, also described how the traffickers punished captives who tried to escape, saying: Some people tried to escape from the camp, but they couldn’t, and they were captured and brought back and beaten. I saw this. Some Thai people were guarding outside the fence. They were residents from the village. Inside the camp, the guards were Rohingya from Maungdaw [in Rakhine State, Myanmar]. There were many people coming and going, maybe 350 people total.171 “Mohammed Kasem,” 26, described how two boys tried to escape from the human-trafficking camp where he was held in Thailand in early 2014, saying: The [traffickers] said the police were coming, and they were transferring us to another place. Two boys escaped from the group. They brought them back to the group and beat them severely . . . with their hands and with sticks. They had some injuries.172 “Mohammed Khan,” 25, described efforts by traffickers to prevent escapes in the camps where traffickers held him, saying: There were four Thai guards. They watched the people. They built a small hut, like a military camp, and stayed there. They did not allow us to even go to the toilet . . . They would catch and beat the people so much if they tried to escape from that place.173 He witnessed multiple retributive beatings by traffickers who recaptured detainees who attempted to escape the human-trafficking camp where he was confined. He said: “Four people tried to escape from [the human-trafficking camp] and were brutally beaten. [The traffickers] injured their legs and both hands, and the guards tied them to the trees. They were alive.”174 167 Fortify Rights interview with #05, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 10, 2014. 168 Ibid. See also, for example, Fortify Rights interviews with #04, #18, and #49, Kuala Lumpur and Pahang, Malaysia and Bangkok, Thailand, August 10, 13 and September 23, 2014. 169 Fortify Rights interview with #17, Pahang State, Malaysia, August 13, 2014. 170 Fortify Rights interview with #19, Pahang State, Malaysia, August 13, 2014. See also, Jane Perlez, “For Myanmar Muslim Minority, No Escape from Brutality,” New York Times, March 14, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/world/asia/ trapped-between-home-and-refuge-burmese-muslims-are-brutalized.html?_r=0 (accessed March 23, 2019). 171 Fortify Rights interview with #58, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 28, 2014. 172 Fortify Rights interview with #54, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 27, 2014. 173 Fortify Rights interview with #26, Songkhla Province, Thailand, October 6, 2013. 174 Ibid.