The story of rape victims in Myanmar, escape with swollen and torn genitals while fleeing to Bangladesh

News24xx.com -  The story of the rape by Myanmar army against of Rohingya women is never exhausted. The soldiers also do not care about the age of women that will be raped. Even teenagers, not escape from their cruelty.

As part of campaign of ethnic cleansing in the country's Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch (HRW), they committed of widespread rape against Rohingya women and girls.

Like the story of this teen. She still 15-year-old, from Hathi Para village in Maungdaw district. But Myanmar's soldiers stripped her naked and dragged her from her home to a tree. And, a terrible rape was finally experienced by her, where about 10 men raped her.

"Ten of Myanmar's soldier rape me. Then, they left me where I was. My brother and sister came to get me, I was lying there on the ground, they thought I was dead," said the girl.

Not only that poor girl, but many women and girls also had same incident. From the report from the UN, many rape survivors reporting their swollen and torn genitals while fleeing to Bangladesh.

More than 600,000 majority-Muslim Rohingya have been forced to seek shelter in neighbouring Bangladesh and their homes and properties have been destroyed in arson attacks since August 25. Hundreds of them have also been killed by Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist mobs.

Not only rape, many women and girls being raped then locked inside houses that were torched. Many of victim who can survive described about their experience when lived in Myanmar. Many soldiers bashing the heads of their young children against to trees, throwing children and elderly parents into burning houses, and shooting their husbands.

"Rape has been a prominent and devastating feature of the Burmese military's campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya. The Burmese military's barbaric acts of violence have left countless women and girls brutally harmed and traumatised," said Skye Wheeler, women's rights emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch and author of the report.

Doctors had treated dozens of women who experienced violent sexual assault since August 2017.

 

 

 

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