Rohingya crisis:Muslim women revel rape and torture inflicted by Burma military forces

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#Rohingya women hav come forwad with stories of sexual,beatings and torture at the hands of Burmese security forces.

More than 600,000 Rohingya refugees habe fled into Bangladesh to escape an offensive by the Burmese military described as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" by the United Nation.

Sunuara, 25, who only gave her first name, fled to neighbouring Bangladesh after her village was attacked on 25 August.

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Before she left , she had good life and owned cows, cars and rice paddy fields, she said.

One day the military arrived and and soldirs cme to hear home ,while her husbend was staying in another village with relatives and her other children were with her parents .

In front of her eyes , her son was shot in the stomach. The soldiers then decapitated him , she said .

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Sunuara, who was eight month pregnant at the time, was tied to a bed and raped by nine for six hours, according to testmony provided to repoters with thee Getty picture agency.

She lost consciousness and when she awoke, her husbend and brother had found her.They carried her to the border of Bangladesh where she give birth at a hospital, but the baby died a day leter.

Roshida Begam,22,escaped from Tula Toli village in Barma at the end August.

The military is accused of petrol-bombing her village and setting houseson fire, shooting anyone they saw on the spot,

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Roshida tried to hide on a riverbank with others,but the military found her.Her husbend swam across and escaped.

The soldirs shot the youngboys and threw badies and children in the river ,she said,adding that they took jewellery off the women and made them kneel up to their necks in a pond.

Roshida recalls a helicopter circling overhead at the time.

The military then took groups of four or five women into houses and raped them,including Roshida.she said her baby,who was 25 days old, was thrown to the ground and killed.

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After the men were done, she said they slit the women`s necks with machehetes and set the house on fire.Roshida survived and escaped,hiding in a paddy field unite she came another women-and together they crossed into Bangladesh.

Roshida`s husbend found her in an MSF clinic and they were moved to a came.In the attack,she claims to have lost 17 members of her family,including her mother,father and brother.

"Im Bangladesh, sometime Im happy,but then III see old man and miss my father, or III see women with a baby, and III miss my son ,"she said.

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"I can`t help but cry. I want justice from the world,why did thay kill my mother and father and sister?

"I hope the world will give me justice, They killed my parents and relative for no reason."

Mumtaz Bagum, 30,also fled Tula Toli village.

Sheran and hid but her husband was shot,As he dyng, she told him :"I have lived many years with you,if made any mistakes,please forgive me."

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Fatally injured he asked the soldiers for water , nd they shot him again, she said.

Mumtaz was then takento a house with some of their children and raped. when the children scremed,they hit them with machetes.
The soldiers then lit the house on fire.

She managed to escape the flames but suffered severe burns, and hid in forest until a group of people found her and carried her to the border.

"They raped and killed us We want justice."

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