Kutupalong, Bangladesh –
Rohingya mother Sofura Begum spent years in a squalid refugee camp after fleeing Myanmar. Now her teenage son has been taken to fight alongside the troops who put her there.
Militant Rohingya groups in Bangladesh have forcibly recruited hundreds of young Rohingya men and boys to fight the Arakan Army, a rebel army in neighboring Myanmar that has won a series of victories against the junta there.
Those sent to fight are working with the military that drove 750,000 members of the persecuted Muslim minority from their homes to Bangladesh in the 2017 crackdown, which is now the subject of an ongoing U.N. genocide lawsuit.
