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The soldiers threw Rokeiya Begum’s baby into the fire.
“I was crying loudly for my child. As I was crying, they threatened to shoot me. They were pulling me to the village.”
It was August 30, 2017, and soldiers from the Myanmar military had set the village of Tula Toli alight.
Nine years later, Begum, a Rohingya refugee, tells her story from a worker’s cottage in Brisbane’s southern suburbs, where she has been living since arriving in Australia on a humanitarian visa in January.
On that day in Tula Toli, down by the river, Begum said the soldiers picked the men and teenage…
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