Systematic Rape on SLORC Orders

[carin@xxxxxxxxxx]

This post from "The Activist", originally from web:mailer-daemon,
is forwarded from dh.mujer.

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Orders To Rape In Burma

A researcher/activist on Burma has reported evidence that SLORC
troops have been specifically instructed to rape and impregnate
ethnic minority women.

The researcher says that on a recent visit to Manerplaw, the area
held by the resistance, he interviewed a number of refugees who
reported that radio transmissions of such orders had been
intercepted, and that they had also seen them issued in written
form. This is believed to be part of the SLORC's genocide campaign
against ethnic minorities. He further notes that women who become
pregnant outside of marriage, even if it is the result of rape,
are permanently ostracized.

Some students in Manerplaw even claim that SLORC soldiers are
rewarded for rapes, at rates depending on the age and education
level of the women raped.

If these reports are correct, it is further evidence that rape
can, in fact, be used systematically, as a planned strategy, in
wars with a strong ethnic component or where forms of genocide are
being carried out. While this has long been suspected, it has so
far been only in Bosnia that specific orders to rape appear to
have been given.

The researcher's reports also note that desertion from the SLORC
army is massive. Most of the soldiers are forced conscripts, and
often unwilling to carry out the atrocities that are a large part
of their 'duties.'

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