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KACHIN SCHOOL GIRL GANG-RAPED, MUTILATED AND KILLED BY BURMA ARMY SOLDIERS

Christian Solidarity Worldwide, 15 August 2008

Just days before UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari prepares to visit Burma for a further round of talks with the military regime, CSW has received credible reports that a 15 year-old school girl in Kachin State, northern Burma, was gang-raped, severely mutilated and murdered by Burma Army soldiers on 27 July.
The school girl, Nhkum Hkawn Din, was attacked near Nam Sai village, Bhamo District, Kachin State on her way to bring rice to her brother who was working in a paddy field. She was reported missing at 9pm that evening.

Three days later, her naked body was found 200 meters from an army checkpoint. Her clothes, slippers and rice basket were also found. A local witness testified that they had seen Burma Army soldiers follow Nhkum Hkawn Din on her way to the paddy field. After her body was found other witnesses testified that they had seen soldiers leave that area after the time she had disappeared.

According to her family, Nhkum Hkawn Din’s skull had been completely crushed, her eyes gouged out, her throat cut, all her facial features “obliterated”, and she had been stabbed several times, including in her stomach and right rib cage. Her family and local villagers claim to know which soldiers carried out the attack, but local authorities refused to take any action.

The use of rape as a weapon of war by the Burma Army is widespread and systematic in Burma, with over a thousand cases documented by women’s organizations among Burma’s ethnic nationalities. CSW has interviewed many Kachin, Chin, Karen, Karenni and Shan women who have been raped. In 2007, four school girls who had been gang-raped were charged with prostitution and jailed when they reported the incident.

UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari’s visit to Burma follows a recent visit by the new UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana, who claimed to have found positive signs that the regime would co-operate with him on human rights.

Alexa Papadouris, Advocacy Director at CSW, said: “This latest tragedy is another example of the grotesque barbarism of the military regime in Burma, and evidence that despite what the regime tells UN envoys, they continue to perpetrate crimes against humanity and a culture of impunity. We call on the UN to introduce specific benchmarks for progress, such as the release of political prisoners and an end to the use of rape, with deadlines, and we urge Mr Gambari to send a clear, tough message to the junta, with the full weight of the UN behind him. The UN Security Council has described rape and sexual violence as a crime against humanity in Resolution 1820 passed on 19 June this year. We believe that the Generals ruling Burma should be brought to the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity.”

For further information and photos, please contact the Advocacy Team at CSW on 020 8329 0063, email matthewjones@csw.org.uk or visit www.csw.org.uk