E/CN.4/1993/62 page 68 few miles, Hussein reportedly told the soldiers that he did not have the strength to carry his load any further and received a brutal beating. He was subsequently nailed to a tree with his arms outstretched and killed with the thrust of a bayonet in his chest. Jaffra Ahmed, from Maungdaw township, died in February 1992 while digging bunkers for an army camp. Beshir Ahmed, Raschid and Mahmood reportedly collapsed after being beaten and were left on the road. Shwe Hla (alias Shonsul Allu), 30, from Bolikinchaung village near Maungdaw, is reported to be missing. Abul Husso, from Buthidaung township, was reportedly taken as a forced labourer in early 1991 and has never returned since. Hafis Ayu, who had been taken for forced porter duty in late 1991, reportedly never returned to his home. Moli Amirakhin, a Muslim cleric from Taminchaung village, Buthidaung township, who had been taken as a forced labourer in late 1991, has never returned to his village. Ill-treatment and rape It has been reported that ill-treatment of Muslims by the army and the Lone Htein’ (a paramilitary security force used to control civil unrest who also act as border patrols) in Rakhine State also occurred outside the context of forced portering during 1991 and early 1992. Muslims were allegedly ill-treated if they attempted to protest when security forces attacked other Muslims, if they objected on their own behalf, if they were suspected of opposing the SLORC, and sometimes for no apparent reason. There have also been numerous reports of women being raped when their husbands were taken away for forced porter duty. Muslims were also ill-treated when they were stopped by the Lone Htein on their way to Bangladesh, or when security forces stole crops and other goods. The following specific cases of ill-treatment and rape have been brought to the attention of the Special Rapporteur: Layla Begum, 16, was staying at the house of her brother, the headman of Imuddin Para village, Rama Musleroy, Buthidaung township. On 1 February 1992, at about 9 p.m. soldiers forced open the door of her brother’s house. When they noticed Layla, they undressed her, molested her violently and dragged her away. Eight days later, her body was found in the jungle near the house. She appeared to have bled to death from her vagina. Her brother, Abdul Halim, who had gone a few days earlier to the local army camp to ask about his sister, was found dead a few days later. Jahura Khatu, 30, the widow of Fazil Alam, a farmer in Naikaengdam, Buthidaung township, who has been mentioned above, reported that soldiers came to her home time and again at random to rape her and to demand money and food after her husband was reported to have been beaten to death while on porter duty in December 1991. A month after her husband’s death, several soldiers