Rohingya Survivors Speak Out About Mass Rape
On August 27, members of the 33rd Light Infantry Division moved into the village of Chut Pyin. >>
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A Myanmar TV network broadcast this report that same day. >>
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But the footage filmed by Rohingya activists tells a different story. Sabo was filming in the nearby village of Ah Tet Nan Ya as survivors from Chut Pyin streamed in. >>
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He filmed dozens of wounded men, women and children, many of them shot in the back as they fled. We tracked down some of the survivors seen in Sabo's footage, who all independently recounted how the military attacked civilians. >>
JAHIN HUSSEIN
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The video shows a villager named Jahin Hussein and his niece, Jamila Khatun. She's 16 years old and has been shot in the back. >>
JAHIN HUSSEIN
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We found them in the refugee camps in Bangladesh. >>
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NUR BEGUM (crying)
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Nur Begum says that when the women tried to fight back, a soldier shot one of them dead. >>
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Multiple survivors from Chut Pyin told us the soldiers engaged in mass rape in the village. Among the survivors filmed by Sabo was village leader and medic Rashan Ali. >>
ALI
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He says he did what he could to treat the victims. >>
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He said many of the rape victims were children. >>
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