E/CN.4/1993/62 page 70 them by the roadside. Gul Mar estimated that 20 children were lost in this way that night, including her own small daughter. When they arrived at the Taraing military camp, she was taken to a room and raped several times a day by groups of four to five soldiers, for seven days. Her family was informed by the military that they would have to pay a ransom of 500 Denga (US$75) for her release. The families of all 120 women who had been abducted were also asked for ransom in the same amount. Most of the women returned but some were never seen again. A number of bodies, such as that of Gul Mar’s friend, Rohima Kathun, 30, were subsequently found near the village that week. Gul Mar never found her daughter again. Doya Banu, 25, from Hangdaung village, Buthidaung township, reported that about 7 p.m. on 1 February 1992, soldiers from the 82nd Company based in Thentarang Camp were going from house to house abducting both men and women to be taken to the camp. As her husband was away on forced labour, she was dragged from her house, her hands tied behind her back, and was tied to a group of about a dozen women which included four or five elderly women. Upon arrival at the camp, after having walked all night on rough terrain, they were separated ’by beauty’ and the old women and children were made to sit outdoors under armed guard while the other women were taken into rooms by soldiers. Doya Banu was raped continuously for three or four days, without rest or sleep. She was given a cup of rice only after two days. Finally, her husband was able to pay a ransom and she was allowed to go home, but he was kept for two more weeks of forced labour. Gulbahar, the 12 year-old sister of Mohammad Rafiq, 25, from Bawli Bazaar, Akyab District, was at home when five soldiers came at noon on 10 February 1992 to collect men for forced labour. The soldiers took turns raping the girl in front of her family and subsequently carried the child away. The family has never received news about her since. The wife of Sayed Hossein, 25, from Bawli Bazaar, Akyab, was raped in the second week of January 1992 by soldiers who had come to take away young men for forced labour. Aisha Khatun, 25, from Labadogh village, Buthidaung township, reported that five soldiers kicked down the door of her house one night in early December 1991, saying they were collecting labourers. When she told them that her husband was not at home, they carried her outside, tore off her clothes, blindfolded her with a rag, and while two or three soldiers held her, each of the five took turns raping her. Her husband, who had come out of the house to defend her, was hacked to death with a long-bladed work knife. Zahida, 17, from Buthidaung township, was raped and killed by the army in late February 1992. Her body was subsequently found on the rubbish dump outside the village. When Zohra, the widow of Imam Hussein who has been mentioned above, found her husband’s mutilated body nailed to a tree, the soldiers who had killed him started raping her. A week later, she and her 12 year-old sister were taken by soldiers to the Lawadong army camp and locked in a room with approximately 40 other women. The soldiers would come into the room, choose a woman and repeatedly rape her in front of the others. Her sister died after five days.