In August 2012, a family of seven from Cox Bazaar, Bangladesh, boarded a bus to the Indo-Bangladesh border. They planned on sneaking into India that night. They were Rohingya — an ethnic group of Myanmar’s Rakhine province.
There would be three separate groups of helpers, their dalal (facilitator) had told them over the phone. One would escort them to a Bangladeshi village near the border, another would take them across to West Bengal and the third would get them onto a train in Kolkata. It would cost them 10,000 taka
(Rs 8,000) each. A part was his fee and the rest, bribes. But if arrested, the dalal warned, he wouldn’t be bailing them out....Read more
Source web page:Economic Times
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