II. On Land: Abuses at Human-Trafficking Camps and Houses in Thailand and Malaysia 60 Rohingya women and girls are also forced into marriage to cover the costs of their travel to Malaysia. For example, “Rohima,” 19, fled her home in Maungdaw Township after Myanmar Army soldiers detained ten women from her village in 2014, seven of whom returned a month later recounting experiences of rape and abuse and three others were found dead. She told Fortify Rights: I knew I needed to leave [Myanmar] . . . My brother was in Malaysia when the women from my village were being arrested by the military. He told his friend about me and the problems in our village. His friend agreed to pay for my travel arrangements to Malaysia and take me as his wife. He contacted and paid the dallal 6,000 Malaysian Ringgit (US$1,720) to bring me to Malaysia. In addition to paying for my travel, he also agreed to give me 17 grams of gold.223 To get to Malaysia, she stayed at a local trafficker’s house in Myanmar for three days, where she was given a red-colored wristband and waited to be brought to the ship.224 She said there were 133 people on the ship, including 20 women: “Only one woman [of 20 on the ship] was [Bangladeshi]. The rest of us were Rohingya . . . We sailed for eight days before reaching Thailand.”225 In Thailand, the traffickers transported her to a human-trafficking camp, where she remained for three days before the traffickers brought her to Malaysia—first by car then by foot for several hours. Upon arrival, she met her brother and stayed with him for ten days before meeting her soon-to-be husband for the first time. She described that meeting, saying: About 30 minutes after arriving to his house, we got married by agreeing in accordance with our tradition. My only hope now for the future is that my husband and I can stay together for a long time.226 “Rayna,” a 19-year-old Rohingya woman, similarly married a man to cover her travel costs from Myanmar’s Maungdaw Township in Rakhine State. She explained her reasons for fleeing Myanmar, saying: My father left Rakhine State eight years ago and had been living in Malaysia. Two years ago, he tried to go to Australia by boat, but he was arrested. Now, he’s in a camp in Australia. Before, he would send money to support our family in Myanmar. There are seven members in my family. After my father was arrested, life became very difficult for us.227 When a Rohingya woman in Rayna’s village approached Rayna’s mother offering to pay for Rayna’s travel costs to go to Malaysia to marry the woman’s son, Rayna’s mother agreed: According to our Rohingya culture, we follow the wishes of our parents . . . My mother and mother-in-law made the travel arrangements for me to come to Malaysia. My brother-in-law and uncle met with the dallal [in Maungdaw Township] . . . My mother and younger brother both went to the dallal’s house . . . My younger brother also decided to leave Malaysia at the same time as me because of all the problems in our village after the violence in 2012. My mother sold some gold and one cow to pay for my younger brother to go to Malaysia.228 Rayna and her brother joined a group of approximately 300 to 400 people, including 44 women, at a local mosque before being transported by car to boats that took them to a larger ship. She described her journey, saying: 223 Fortify Rights interview with #77, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 27, 2014. 224 See, Fortify Rights, internal report on human trafficking case, trial monitoring notes, Rachada Criminal Court, Human Trafficking Division, Bangkok, Thailand, May 5 and 12, 2016. See also, Fortify Rights interviews with human traffickers and human trafficking survivors, 2013-2015. 225 Fortify Rights interview with #77, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 27, 2014. 226 Ibid. 227 Fortify Rights interview with #84, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 16, 2014. 228 Ibid.