A group of Rohingya men sleep on a pile of donated clothes at a transit camp on September 8, after nearly 300 Rohingya migrants came ashore on the northern coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island. (AFP)
A group of Rohingya men sleep on a pile of donated clothes at a transit camp on September 8, after nearly 300 Rohingya migrants came ashore on the northern coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island. (AFP)

Terror at sea: Rohingya migrants tell of 200-day ordeal

Hundreds of Rohingya paid traffickers for a one-week trip from Bangladesh to Malaysia to escape squalid refugee camps. Instead, they suffered more than 200 days of terror on the high seas.

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