27 Weeping, Mohammed Yunus said, “I didn’t know about these risks before I went.”11 “Raheem,” 27, spent nearly five weeks at sea on a ship operated by Thai and Rohingya traffickers and carrying more than 200 “passengers” after fleeing from his home in Aung Mingalar village in Sittwe Township in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in 2014. He told Fortify Rights: [The traffickers] used bracelets to split us into groups. There were two [name redacted] groups, and one [name redacted] group. [The trafficker’s] boss’s name is [redacted]. He is from Thailand. There was a small agent who said we belonged to [name redacted] . . . [Mine] was a yellow plastic bracelet.12 A Rohingya woman, 65, who fled from Buthidaung Township in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in 2012, told Fortify Rights about the wristband the traffickers gave her, saying: “I had a bracelet from the dallal. I know what the bracelet means. It’s from the dallal, and it shows what dallal bought me and owned me . . . The dallals were Rohingya, Bangladeshi, and Burmese and spoke different languages.”13 Witnesses in a trial against alleged human traffickers in Thailand likewise testified in court in 2016 about how traffickers used color-coded wristbands to signify traffickers’ ownership over Rohingya captives.14 Members of a trafficking syndicate also deceived Rohingya into thinking they would not have to pay additional funds for transport to Malaysia. “Fatima,” 20, told Fortify Rights: We were so surprised when the dallals demanded additional money in Thailand. We thought we had paid already to get to Malaysia. They told us, “You contact your friend, your parents, your neighbor and tell them to raise the money immediately.” We didn’t know anyone in Malaysia who could pay for our release, so we got in contact with people in Myanmar to find someone in Malaysia who could help us.15 “Abdul Haman,” 17, fled his home in Du Char Yar Tan village (also known as Duchiridan or Kilidarn), Maungdaw Township in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in January 2014 after Myanmar state security officers killed residents and burned down several homes following the disappearance of a police officer. He told Fortify Rights: “Everyone had to pay 50,000 Myanmar Kyat (US$51; 145 Malaysian Ringgit) to get to Thailand . . . Only when I arrived in Thailand did I learn that I would have to pay 6,000 Malaysian Ringgit (US$1,700) to get to Malaysia.”16 “Mohammed Kasem,” 26, fled from Maungdaw Township, Rakhine State, Myanmar in April 2014 and paid to board a human-trafficking ship: I had to pay 50,000 Myanmar Kyat (US$51; 145 Malaysian Ringgit) to get on the boat. I paid it to one person in another village [in northern Rakhine State] called Kun Kar Para. That was to get on the boat. When we started traveling, I didn’t know I would have to pay more to come to Malaysia. When I arrived in the mountain camps [somewhere on the Malaysia-Thailand border], I had to call my friend to pay 6,000 Malaysian Ringgit (US$1,700) for me.17 11 Ibid. 12 Fortify Rights interview with #23, Johor State, Malaysia, August 15, 2015. 13 Fortify Rights interview with #140, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 2, 2019. 14 Fortify Rights, internal report on human trafficking case, trial monitoring notes, Rachada Criminal Court, Human Trafficking Division, Bangkok, Thailand, May 12, 2016. See also, Fortify Rights interviews with human traffickers and human trafficking survivors, 2013-2015. 15 Fortify Rights interview with #75, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 27, 2014. 16 Fortify Rights interview with #81, Penang State, Malaysia, September 15, 2014. 17 Fortify Rights interview with #54, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 27, 2014.