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Army conducts mass arrest and sexual abuses on women in Maungdaw South


AT Correspondent, Maungdaw

Myanmar brutal military forces have been carrying out intense crackdown against the Rohingya villagers where dozens of innocent people have been arrested and the women have been sexually assaulted by army in Guduthaya village of Southern Maungdaw since yesterday.

The army members have besieged the village and started arresting people arbitrarily and making attempt to conduct mass rape on women in the village.

All the male members of the village fled from the village and several women have been sexually assaulted by army members who have been found inside their houses.

A woman says they could not sleep at night due to violence of army against the Rohingya in the village since yesterday.

“We are fleeing from the village to escape sexual rape of army. We are going where we can see. If we stay at home in the village, we will also be raped by military forces”, said another woman who could escape rape.

The arrested people have been cruelly tortured by army to severe injury on different parts of their bodies in the custody.

Now, all the residents of Goduthay village tract are scattered outside the village, some have been arrested many other men including women and children fled away from the village., source said.

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