Rohingya Testimonies: murder, rape, violence by Burmese ( in percentages )

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https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2017/08/shrinking-spaces-for-rohingyas-in-india/

"Then, there is the report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), based on interviews with Rohingya people displaced from Myanmar since October 2016. The team also carried out a basic statistical analysis of the violations reported or experienced by the 204 individuals interviewed. Take a look at the following statistics:

Testimonies of witnesses (including victims): Of the 204 persons interviewed –

134 (65%) reported killings.

115 (56%) reported disappearances (including persons having been “taken away” by the security forces and not heard of since).

131 (64%) reported beatings.

88 (43%) reported rape.

63 (31%) reported sexual violence.

131 (64%) reported burning or destruction of property.

81 (40%) reported looting/theft of property.

Testimonies of victims: Of the 204 persons interviewed, many reported having personally been a victim of a violation:

26 (13%) reported having been personally shot or stabbed (the OHCHR team has photographic evidence on file).

91 (45%) reported that a family member had disappeared.

96 (47%) reported that a family member had been killed.

89 (44%) reported having been beaten.

26 (13%) reported having been raped, of whom two were girls. Among the 101 women interviewed, 24 (24%) reported having been raped.

Thirty-three reported having suffered other forms of sexual violence, of whom five were girls.

Among the 101 women interviewed, 28 (28%) reported having suffered other forms of sexual violence.

Taken together, 52 (52%) of the 101 women interviewed reported having been raped or subjected to other forms of sexual violence.

102 (50%) reported that their own property had been burned or destroyed.

76 (37%) reported looting or theft of their own property.

 

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http://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/rohingya-bangladesh-01192017181052.html

Interviews: One in Three Rohingya Women Refugees Say They Were Raped

One in three women interviewed by BenarNews this week in Bangladesh’s refugee camps for Rohingya Muslims who fled violence in Myanmar claimed they were raped by security forces before their escape.

A correspondent for BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online news service, who spent four days visiting the camps in southeastern Cox’s Bazar district, reported that 17 of the 54 Rohingya women she interviewed said they were raped while Myanmar’s military launched a brutal crackdown in northern Rakhine state after nine police officers were attacked and killed by an armed Rohingya insurgent group in October.

Numerous reports of rape and other atrocities had emerged since the post-attack crackdown, which led to some 65,000 Rohingya entering Bangladesh, but this is the first time that numbers were cited based on random surveys of the extent of sexual assaults on wome