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Officers committing rape
Officers committing rape
One fact that shows clearly that rape is condoned by the military authorities is that 83% of the cases of rape documented in this report were committed by military officers, from the ranks of corporal to major as the following list of perpetrators shows:
| ranks of officers | nos. committing rape |
| "commander/officer" (rank unspecified) | 48 |
| major | 14 |
| captain | 63 |
| lieutenant | 5 |
| sergeant | 6 |
| corporal | 3 |
| Total | 139 |
In the vast majority of these cases (85%) the officer was on duty with other troops, and made no attempt to hide his crime. In fact, in 10 of the cases, the officer actually passed on the victim(s) to his troops either to let them gang-rape her, or to let them kill her.
Three women, aged 18, 21 and 24, were collecting firewood in the forest near the road, 2 miles west of their village of Pa Sak, Murng Hsat township, when 80 SPDC troops from LIB 359 seized the women and interrogated them. After a while, Captain Htun Kyaw took the youngest girl into a nearby bush and raped her. After that, he gave all the women to his junior officers and told them to rape them. The troops then beat all the women to death with sticks. (case 105)
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE, BURMA?