Arakan News Agency
Around 32 Rohingya women and girls were raped by Myanmar military and Border Guard Police in Kyaung Taung (Kiyangdaung) village, which is situated in northern side of Taung Bazar village of Buthidaung Township in Arakan State.
A group of joint forces consisting of about 250 army and Border Guard Police (BGP) suddenly entered into Kyaung Taung (Kiyangdaung) village and surrounded the village.
As they checked house by house. While doing so, men were detained and beaten. The women and girls were taken out of the houses and were forced to line up.
The soldiers and police molested them and robbed whatever they found on the women’s bodies such as gold and money, the troops also destroyed many things inside the houses and took away any gold and money, whatever valuables that they found.
Then started vandalizing household and kitchen items according to the villagers.
Yet again on May 8th, 2017 a group of border guard police from Taung Bazar regional camp and Kyaung Taung village and another group of soldiers from Light Infantry Unit 552 and 232 collaborated together and entered into Middle village and Sar Kine village of Kyaung Taung area.
Once the troops entered the villagers flee as they has already experienced the attacks on May 6th, all men and two thirds of the women escaped from the village immediately.
The troops robbed from every house and destroyed whatever they couldn’t carry with them. According to the villagers, they raped many women and girls till May 11th, 2017,
The villagers said border guard police officers Ko Ko Oo and Maung Maung Htay specifically, have raped many women and girls.
According to the villagers, at least 32 women and girls were raped by soldiers and border guard police. Among them two women were gang raped. All of them reported about the sexual violence to the high ranking officers of the military and border guard police based nearby their village.
They have said on May 9th, 7 women and girls from Middle village, on May 10th, 16 women and girls from Sar Kine village and on May 11th, 9 women and girls from Middle village were raped.
