NEW DELHI – When Rohingya siblings Irfan and Salma (names changed) fled with their mother from a burning village in Myanmar in 2016, they were just 12 and 10 years old, respectively.
On the way to neighbouring Bangladesh, they braved a rocky boat journey, aching hunger and military gunfire, as they escaped from what has been described as a systematic campaign of persecution and killing of the ethnic Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist country. In Bangladesh, a tout then swindled the family of a lot of their money, promising a refugee card that never came.
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