Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences,
Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy,
submitted in accordance with Commission on Human Rightsresolution 2000/49

[Extracts on Myanmar. Full report on http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/TestFrame/766109ab505f413dc1256b810059e243?Opendocument ]

75. By letter dated 30 August 2001 sent jointly with the Special Rapporteurs on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and on torture, the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that she had received information on the following individual cases.
    
76. Three young women originally from Wan Paang village, Nam-Zarng township, including two minors and Naang Zing Mya, were reportedly gang-raped by State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) troops from Company No. 4 of LIB 247 at a farm 3.5 miles from the town, on 24 May 1999. A patrol of about 50 SPDC troops reportedly asked them for their men and they answered that they had been taken by SPDC troops to serve as porters. A commander reportedly took one of the minors into a nearby farm, raped her and slapped her until she had bruises all over her face. The other two women were allegedly gang-raped several times. Naang Zing Mya was reportedly shot dead when she tried to run away and the two others were subsequently severely beaten and slapped.
    
77. Pa Poi, Naang Awng, Naang Mawn and Pa Loi Pe were reportedly arrested on 30 October 1999 by SPDC troops from LIB 514, under the accusation of having provided rice for the Shan rebels. They were reportedly taken to a deserted village west of Murng-Kerng town, gang-raped for one night and found dead the following morning.
    
78. Naang Ong, Naang Thun Nae and Naang Paan Yaen were reportedly arrested by SPDC troops from Company No. 3 of LIB 514 in late March 2000, 2.5 miles south of Kae-See town, Kae-See township, accused of being the wives of Shan rebels. They were tied up and interrogated about their husbands’ whereabouts. The youngest woman was reportedly taken away by the patrol commander, who is said to have raped her, while the other two were raped by two officers. The next day, these two women were allegedly handed over to the remaining 30 soldiers, who reportedly gang-raped them and subsequently killed them.
    
79. Naang Muay Phawng, Naang Zaan Pao, Naang Htun Nae, Naang Khur Wan, Naang Laao Sai and Naang Seng Hurn, aged 16, all displaced women, were reportedly arrested by SPDC troops from LIB 248 in late May 2000, near the Kun-Hing-Murng-Paeng road between Ka Li village relocation site and Kun-Hing town, Kun-Hing township, raped by about 60 soldiers and subsequently shot dead.
    
80. Nang Kawng Tip, a 17-year-old girl from Murng In village, Murng Poo tract, Murng-Start township, was reportedly raped and killed by seven of the SPDC troops from Murng-Sart-based LIB 527 on 13 April 1999, on the banks of the Nam In stream in the vicinity of the village.
    
81. Sai Nu, Sai Zitta, Sai Nya-Lintta, Maamg Nguay (f) and Naanf Lern (f), aged 17, were reportedly arrested by SPDC troops from Company No. 2 of LIB 102 on 11 January 2000, on the banks of the Nam Paang river in Kun-Hing township, interrogated about the whereabouts of Shan soldiers in the area and beaten to death. The two women are reported to have been taken with the troops for two days and two nights, during which they are believed to have been repeatedly raped and subsequently shot dead.
    
82. By letter dated 30 August 2001 sent jointly with the Special Rapporteur on torture, the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that she had received information on the following individual cases.
    
83. Nang Kya Non from Kaeng Lom village was reportedly gang-raped by SPDC soldiers from LIB 246 on 27 and 28 September 1998, near her farm 2.5 miles from Kun-Hing town. They reportedly took turns until daybreak and threatened to shoot her if she made any noise.
    
84. Nang Lam, a seven-month-pregnant woman, was reportedly beaten to death and her sister, Nang Zu, beaten, raped and robbed by SPDC troops of LIB 22 at a farm three miles south of Mark Mong Pawk village relocation site in Nam-Zarng township on 14 October 1998. Nang Zu was allegedly transferred to hospital for treatment of her head wound. When she explained what had happened, the medical personnel reportedly told her to say that her head was hit by a falling branch. She is believed to have fled to Thailand two or three days later.
    
85. Pa Murng Awn, Pa Long, Naang Zaam, Naang Mo Khur and their husbands were reportedly arrested by a patrol of SPDC troops from LIB 514 on 22 May 1999. They are reported to have been detained in the lock-up of the military camp in Kae-See town, where the women are believed to have been repeatedly raped for three consecutive nights by a captain and three other officers. The eight were allegedly released only when their relatives paid 10,000 kyat and they fled to Thailand on 11 June 1999.
    
86. Naang Noot was reportedly threatened with a gun and raped by an officer from LIB 227 of the SPDC in Murng-Phyak on 18 September 1999, when she was fishing close to Wan Tap village, Murng Nung tract, Murng-Khak township. Fearing reprisals, she reportedly did not officially complain about the rape.
    
87. Naang Mawn Zing, aged 17, and Naang Lam Poi, both schoolgirls from Lai-Kha, were reportedly arrested by SPDC soldiers in early October 1999, when attending a school meeting during which they asked about alleged human rights violations committed by soldiers. They were reportedly taken to LIB 515 base, where they were raped for four days and nights. Their parents were allegedly ordered to pay 15,000 kyat for the release of each of them.
    
88. Naang, a 16-year-old girl, was reportedly gang-raped at gunpoint by three SPDC soldiers from LIB 279, including a sergeant, on 12 January 2000, on the bank of Nam Yarng stream near Ter Laat village, in Murng-Yarng township.
    
89. Naang (Zang) and Naang (Nawt), aged 17, were reportedly raped on the banks of Nam Yaang stream some distance from their village on 6 March 2000 by SPDC troops from LIB 314 near Yaang Khum Mu village, Nawng Kwaang tract, Kaeng-Tung township.
    
90. Naang (Mya Tawng), a displaced Shan woman, was allegedly raped at gunpoint on 29 March 2000 by the commander of Company No. 4 of the SPDC Kaeng-Tung-based LIB 529, stationed at Naa Kawng Mu. The latter is also alleged to have threatened to imprison the village leaders who wanted to complain about the rape.
    
91. Pa Wai, originally from Kun Pu village, Kun Pu tract, and Naang Thawn, Naang Thun Nae and Naang Ing, aged 9, all from Naa Mawn village, Nawng Hai tract, were allegedly raped by SPDC troops from LIB 246 based at Kun-Hing township. They were reportedly arrested in late April 2000 and repeatedly raped for five days and four nights by the soldiers.

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