Won't it be a problem? Won't people talk about it?" she said. Unmarried, she fears the shame of her violation is indelible, and will render her unwanted, forever. "Three military persons took us to three separate rooms. One Australian aid worker is trying to help stop the wells from running dry. More than 800,000 Rohingya refugees are stuck in camps in Bangladesh without dwindling supplies of clean drinking water. "My husband even threatened to leave me if I do not recover from bleeding soon," she said. Weeks on, she is still suffering internal bleeding.īut the stigma of her violation is so powerful she has kept the full details of her ordeal secret, even from doctors, fearing her husband will find out and reject her.
Revived by several village women, she later walked to Bangladesh in excruciating pain. "I had blood and urine all over my clothes." "About 10 to 15 army men raped me, and left me there and went away," she said. When she resisted, soldiers choked her, then subjected her to a violent gang rape so prolonged she fainted. Noor and several others were singled out, tied up and taken away.
"They started searching our bodies and removed our clothes forcefully," Noor said. The plight of Myanmar's Rohingya refugees, a Muslim ethnic minority group rendered stateless in their homeland and detained in transit nations, is desperately bleak.
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