UNB, Dhaka :
Keeping themselves confined to a tiny room with no light inside, two young Rakhine Muslim women were struggling to get rid of the trauma and forget the brutality they had gone through.
They remained speechless for minutes seeing the presence of a newsman at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia. Later, they revealed the horrors-reprisals, rape and burning people and houses.
“We’re asked to get undressed and look up at the sun…we were left naked and with no food and water before being gang-raped (by Myanmar forces),” Hosne Ara
(not her real name), a 25-year-old Myanmar national, told UNB narrating the horrible torture perpetrated on her and her relatives. Hosne Ara, hailing from Kyari Parang village from Myanmar side, her husband Sona Miah and her son Ibrahim got confined to their house when Myanmar forces put their house on fire.
“I was caught by several soldiers. The soldiers had previously gathered women of the village and took all of them to nearby paddy fields where they were all raped one after another,” she recalled avoiding the eye contact.
Nur Sufia, another 20-year-old woman, sitting beside Hosne Ara, was also sharing a similar sad story.
“On December 10, soldiers came to my house and burned it down. I managed to escape with my two kids-Mohammed Selim, 4, and 18-month-old Noor Kayes,” Sufia told UNB.
She said, four soldiers caught her and raped her before shooting the kids in their heads. “My husband and two brothers were burned in the fire.”
Though a commission probing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State denied security forces had abused Rohingya, anyone can see totally a different picture while talking to the new arrivals from Myanmar here in Bangladesh.
Keeping themselves confined to a tiny room with no light inside, two young Rakhine Muslim women were struggling to get rid of the trauma and forget the brutality they had gone through.
They remained speechless for minutes seeing the presence of a newsman at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia. Later, they revealed the horrors-reprisals, rape and burning people and houses.
“We’re asked to get undressed and look up at the sun…we were left naked and with no food and water before being gang-raped (by Myanmar forces),” Hosne Ara
(not her real name), a 25-year-old Myanmar national, told UNB narrating the horrible torture perpetrated on her and her relatives. Hosne Ara, hailing from Kyari Parang village from Myanmar side, her husband Sona Miah and her son Ibrahim got confined to their house when Myanmar forces put their house on fire.
“I was caught by several soldiers. The soldiers had previously gathered women of the village and took all of them to nearby paddy fields where they were all raped one after another,” she recalled avoiding the eye contact.
Nur Sufia, another 20-year-old woman, sitting beside Hosne Ara, was also sharing a similar sad story.
“On December 10, soldiers came to my house and burned it down. I managed to escape with my two kids-Mohammed Selim, 4, and 18-month-old Noor Kayes,” Sufia told UNB.
She said, four soldiers caught her and raped her before shooting the kids in their heads. “My husband and two brothers were burned in the fire.”
Though a commission probing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State denied security forces had abused Rohingya, anyone can see totally a different picture while talking to the new arrivals from Myanmar here in Bangladesh.
