New Delhi —

In the home he thought was safe, Mohammad Ismail pines for the daughter who was snatched from him and sent back to the country they fled eight years ago; a country where their community officially does not exist.

Mohammad and his daughter Asma ran from their village in Myanmar in 2017 as soldiers went on a state-sanctioned, weeks-long rampage of rape, arson and murder against the country’s Rohingya minority.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled to squalid refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh, but Mohammad and his daughter found safety and hope in India. He found work as a rag picker and Asma went to school in the dusty neighborhood in the capital New Delhi they came to call home. Last May, Asma, now 20, was supposed to get married.

Thousands of Rohingya refugees flee

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