Military torture of women detained in Myanmar: "We rape and kill women who arrive here"

Women in detention are not safe in Mayanmar

In Myanmar, women in detention are subjected to torture, sexual harassment and threats of rape.

Earlier this year, five women detained for protesting against a military coup in the country claimed that they had been tortured and harassed since their arrest. In this article, their names have been changed for security reasons.

Warning: This article contains disturbing details of violence and sexual harassment.

Protests have been going on across the country since the military came to power in Myanmar in February, and women have played a key role in the resistance movement.

Human rights groups say that although the military has used kidnappings and violence in Myanmar in the past, it has escalated since the military coup.

As of December 8, total 1,318 civilians had been killed in military operations against the pro-democracy movement in the country, including 93 women, according to the human rights organization Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.

At least eight of the women were killed in custody, and four of them were beaten to death at an interrogation center.

A total of 10,200 people were detained, including 2,000 women.

Democrat activist “N Soo May” was detained for about six months, during which she spent the first ten days in Myanmar's notorious interrogation center, where she claims to have been sexually assaulted.

She told the BBC she was making placards one day when she was arrested and forcibly pushed into a van.

"It was nocturnal when I arrived at an unidentified site and I was blindfolded. They were driving me away from imaginary obstacles as if they were making fun of me."

She declared that her admission had been gotten through torment and that her admission had been acquired through torment. We assault and kill them.

She says that she was sexually assaulted while blindfolded. According to “N Soo May”, soldiers removed her clothes and touched her bared body badly.

After her blindfold was removed, she saw a guard pull out all but one bullet from his pistol. She says she put the pistol in her mouth when she did not pass on the information to investigators.