57 A mid-level Rohingya trafficker, 48, living in southern Thailand explained the business of brideselling to Fortify Rights: The women who can’t pay [for their release from traffickers] are sent to the people who want women. If there is a daughter and the father can’t give money, she is sold to another man. They are sold like cattle. The people who haven’t married, sometimes they buy the girls, and some people buy them for jobs and for work. Whatever [type of work] they want, they just buy them from the broker. Some people are old age, and they want a young girl, so they buy a young girl.202 A recording obtained by Fortify Rights in 2014 of a phone call between two Rohingya traffickers in Bangkok and a Rohingya trafficker overseeing a human-trafficking camp in southern Thailand further clarified the process.203 On the call, the Bangkok-based traffickers negotiated for the purchase of two women from the camp. At the outset of the call, the trafficker in the camp explained that he worked for a Rohingya human-trafficker from Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar, who managed a camp in southern Thailand’s Satun Province. The camp held several hundred captives, including 16 women. The Bangkok-based traffickers initially offered 25,000 Thai Baht (US$780; 2,700 Malaysian Ringgit) for a Rohingya woman referred to as “Zaida,” and the camp-based trafficker replied with a nonnegotiable counteroffer of 30,000 Thai Baht (US$937; 3,270 Malaysian Ringgit), citing his boss as the authority on pricing.204 At one point, the Bangkok-based traffickers asked the camp-based trafficker if another woman they spoke to, “Is [she] beautiful or not?” The Rohingya guard replies: “You can see them first. If you want to take one or two, that is your decision. She is very beautiful, very beautiful. A Thai guard [in the human-trafficking camp] wants to marry her.”205 At one point, the Bangkok-based traffickers speak directly to “Zaida.” She said: “We have not had any food since the morning. I am just crying. We are usually not provided food in the morning, and there is nothing to cook. They will not provide food to us in the evening either.”206 Another woman is handed the phone and asked by the Bangkok-based traffickers if she would marry a Mullah (an Islamic religious leader) originally from Minbya Township, Rakhine State, Myanmar. She replied: “Yes, I shall marry if it is the order of Allah. Would you please try to take us within two or three days? We are in a very difficult situation. We cannot get food, water, and clothes and cannot take a bath. We are in a very difficult situation.”207 The traffickers eventually sold into marriage or domestic servitude all of the women and girls in the camp—some as young as 12-years old—and transported them to Malaysia.208 Fortify Rights spoke to Rohingya women who witnessed traffickers taking women and girls out of the human-trafficking camp, presumably to be sold. For example, “Noor Begum,” 20, described seeing traffickers take women and girls away during her time in the camp.209 She said: [The traffickers] took some girls away from [the human-trafficking camp], and we thought they were selling them. We realized they were taking the women because they wanted to sell them. If women stayed for a long time, they took them away. I don’t know where they took them. I realized that [the women in the camp] were unable to pay money . . . I didn’t see anyone from outside come, but the [camp] supervisors came and took them away.210 202 Fortify Rights interview with #42, Songkhla Province, Thailand, September 17, 2014. 203 Fortify Rights, transcript of recorded telephone call between two Rohingya men and trafficking-camp guard, #51, Bangkok, Thailand, September 22, 2014. 204 Ibid. 205 Ibid. 206 Ibid. 207 Ibid. 208 Fortify Rights communication with trafficker of Rohingya descent, July 13, 2015. 209 Fortify Rights interview with #20, Pahang State, Malaysia, August 14, 2014. 210 Ibid.