Rohingya Fleeing Rape

The Associated Press sent a team of journalists to refugee camps in Bangladesh to investigate the use of rape by Myanmar’s armed forces against Rohingya Muslim women and girls.

AP Investigation: Rape of Rohingya sweeping, methodical

The soldiers arrived, as they often did, long after sunset. It was June, and the newlyweds were asleep in their home, surrounded by the fields of wheat they farmed in western Myanmar. Without warning, seven soldiers burst into the house and charged into their bedroom

21 Rohingya women recount rape by Myanmar armed forces

Their stories were hauntingly similar.

The use of rape by Myanmar’s armed forces has been sweeping and methodical, the AP found in interviews with 29 Rohingya Muslim women and girls now in Bangladesh. They were interviewed separately, come from a variety of villages in Myanmar and now live spread across several refugee camps in Bangladesh. Yet their stories were hauntingly similar.