Pregnant Rohingya Refugees Face Monsoons as Aid Runs Out

  • Little progress in resolving Myanmar-Bangladesh crisis
  • Many of the 40,000 pregnant women at risk are rape victims

Pregnant Rohingya Refugees Face Monsoons as Aid Runs Out

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Setara had already gone into labor when armed men arrived at her village in Myanmar’s Rakhine State last September.

“I was scared -- I saw them killing two people -- one of them was my uncle and the other was my neighbor,” she recalled. Setara managed to escape with her husband, and gave birth to her son a day later as they hid in a forest.