KALADAN NEWS
Date:
TWO REFUGEE GIRLS RAPED IN
Cox’s Bazar
Jan-1: Two Rohingya Arakanese
refugee girls were raped by local goons at nearby place of Nayapara
camp under the Cox’s
The victims are identified as Begum,
10, and Khatun, 11, (not real name), registered
refugees from Nayapara camp. They bear all the
official documents with their parents. Both of them were born and grownup in
refugee camp in
Shamsul
Huda, 21, son of Kasim and
Mohammad Noor, 23 son of Noor
Mohammed hailed from Leda village, closed to the refugee camp, and raped the
aforesaid girls at about 1:00 pm on December 22, 2004, said a relative of a
victim on condition of anonymity.
The said local goons had been
waiting intentionally for sexual violence against the refugee girls for a long
time. The local goons grabbed and forcibly took away the girls to nearby bush
while the girls were washing clothes at a creek that placed on the western side
of the camp and raped the girls closing their mouths. On hearing of their hue
and cry, nearby refugees rushed to the spot and rescued the girls with profuse
bleeding, while the rapists managed to escape, he continued.
Refugees took the victims to the
camp health center for treatment, while the doctor referred the case to the
office of the Camp-in-Charge, Mr. Mohammad Siddik and
Mr. Asaduzzaman, the deputy In-Charge of the Camp,
said Mujib, a staff of the camp health center.
The Camp-in-Charge, seeing the
condition of the young girls, a case was logged by the officials against the
rapists in local police station of Teknaf but no
rapist is arrested till filling of this report. The said victims are under
medical treatment and now their health is improving, he added.
At present, refugees of the camp
are under the fear of localities as on anger of logging case against the local
goons while they feel unsecured.
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