UN observers say they have seen scores of rape and gang-rape survivors among the Rohingya who have fled ethnic violence in Myanmar in recent weeks. She does not know where her other three children are — they were playing outside when the soldiers came and had disappeared by the time it was over, she said. She said she had seen women with bruising on their bodies and bite marks on their breasts and genitals. ‘Fight for survival’UN experts in Bangladesh say there appear to be fewer rape survivors among the latest arrivals. When soldiers came to her village in Buthidaung township in northern Rakhine her neighbours fled.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 24, 2017 02:48 UTC