"We heard, we read, we know. And we are outraged. We, from various international and regional organizations, come together to express our collective disgust and anger over the widespread and systematic use of rape as a weapon of war by the Burmese military regime. We ask the international community to take immediate action to end these practices and to protect the victims. The data that has been documented by the brave women of the Shan Women�s Action Network (SWAN) and Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF), published as �Licence to Rape�, has brought to public attention what, up until now, has been whispered in fear throughout the communities that have been ravaged by these acts of terror..."