‘Rape a devastating feature of Myanmar’s campaign against the Rohingya,’ report finds
Washington — Myanmar security forces slit the throats of Muslim Rohingya, burnt victims alive, and gang-raped women and girls, according to two separate reports detailing mounting evidence of genocide against the minority group. Human Rights Watch focused on the use of sexual violence in its report on the military’s campaign against the Rohingya, and concluded that the depredations amounted to crimes against humanity. "Rape has been a prominent and devastating feature of the Burmese military’s campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya," said Skye Wheeler, a researcher at Human Rights Watch and author of the report. "The Burmese military’s barbaric acts of violence have left countless women and girls brutally harmed and traumatized." A separate report by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Southeast Asia-based Fortify Rights documents "widespread and systematic attacks" on Rohingya civilians between October 9 and December of last year, and from August 25 of this year. The 30...
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