49 When I was unable to pay the money to the men, they poured boiling water on my head and body. I have wounds and scars. Then they took green chilies and rubbed them under my eyes. I saw they had pistols. There were seven Shan security guards with guns. They had us all lie down, side-by-side in a long row and they walked on our necks. Sometimes when people were noisy, they would fire their guns in the sky. Of all the abuse, the worst was when they poured boiling water on my body. They did this every day. The reason they did it was because I didn’t pay the money to the agent. That’s why they beat and tortured me. My legs are no longer conscious. They are numb, and there is not enough circulation.155 Several Rohingya who survived different camps described how traffickers poured boiling water on their bodies. “Mohammed Ishmael,” 20, also told Fortify Rights: “[Traffickers] poured boiling water on my skin.”156 “Naw Begum,” 40, spent six months in a human-trafficking camp in Thailand before her son was able to pay the traffickers to obtain her release as well as the release of her two sons, daughter, and her son’s 16-year-old wife. While confined to the camp, she witnessed traffickers commit horrific acts of torture and sexual violence. She told Fortify Rights: We called our relatives, and the [traffickers] would beat us and tell us to ask for money. They had pliers and pulled on our ears and breasts. They pulled on the men’s penises. If any babies cried, they would take the baby and the woman aside, hold the woman’s breasts and force the baby to eat. I saw how they abused the men. When [the men] asked for more rice, they threw the rice in their face and made them run around for hours with no clothes. The guards made us watch them abuse the men with no clothes. They pulled their penises with pliers and forced them to ask for money. I saw them do that to five or six men. The men would shout terribly when they pulled. The guards forced them to call their relatives and ask for money. When men arrived [at the camp], as soon as they arrived, the guards beat them all. They kicked them and kneed them. The men were beaten brutally. Some [of the guards] were ThaiMalay Muslims, and some were Thai Buddhists in the camp.157 Fortify Rights obtained mobile-phone video footage of an apparent gang rape of a young Rohingya woman by two young Rohingya men. In the film, a man pins down a Rohingya woman while another man rapes her while smiling. Another unseen person is filming the crime. Thai authorities received the footage. The footage appears to have been taken with a mobile phone and may have been filmed in a human-trafficking camp on the Malaysia-Thailand border.158 The young woman and men in the film are speaking the Rohingya language.159 Other women told Fortify Rights of traffickers beating them in the camp. For example, “Noor Wai,” 15, said: [In] Thailand, I had to stay in a [human-trafficking] camp and that was a very difficult time for me, because most of the time, [the traffickers] beat us. When we called our families or relatives to ask for money, they beat us. When they were demanding money, they beat us. If someone didn’t want to talk, they beat us. They beat me . . . I got these [bruises] when they beat me with a stick. They were dallals from Maungdaw [in Rakhine State, Myanmar]. I got the bruises in Thailand . . . They beat me many times . . . They used a bamboo stick. 160 155 Fortify Rights interview with #10, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 11, 2014. 156 Fortify Rights interview with #50, Songkhla Province, Thailand, September 17, 2014. 157 Fortify Rights interview with #49, Bangkok, Thailand, September 23, 2014. 158 Mobile phone footage obtained and interpreted by Fortify Rights, 2014. 159 Ibid. 160 Fortify Rights interview with #69, Penang State, Malaysia, October 1, 2014.