Sandar's son, 9, plays with a toy gun. She recalls that her husband started abusing her straight after the marriage. “He beat me and kicked me when he came back from work,” she says. “He blamed me because I did not cook or clean.” He became more violent since the Covid-19 outbreak, “mostly because of money.” He did not work regularly even before the pandemic. During the lockdown, he lost his job in an egg shop. Burmese migrant women in Thailand were already a high-risk group before Covid-19, but their lives got more difficult because of the pandemic. During the lockdown, women facing domestic violence found themselves locked up at home with their abusers, with fewer chances of asking for help and little or no income.
