E/CN.4/1993/62 page 69 came one night, raped her again and took her out of the house where three young women, all unmarried, were forced at gunpoint to walk with her to Naikaengdam Camp. The women were given no food or water and were raped by officers throughout the night and all the following day. They were told that they would be released if they promised to bring other women to the camp. The women were subsequently released and decided to escape to Bangladesh. Oziba Khatun, 20, from Napura village, Maungdaw township, reported that she and her husband, Abdul Haq, 28, had been abducted many times for forced labour under very harsh conditions. When soldiers came to their house one more time in early 1992, her husband hid in the bushes. The soldiers took Oziba Khatun instead, and she was forced to leave her two children in the house and walk for five hours with the soldiers, until they arrived at a camp where she was raped by officers all night. Her husband came to find her at the camp the next day and she was released, but he was kept at the camp and was never seen again. Rohima Kathun, 35, a widow from Shigdarpara village, Maungdaw township, reported that during the last months of 1991, soldiers from the Charmael Camp, Luntin battalion, went from house to house, collecting girls between the ages of 12 and 16. Survivors of these abductions had always been raped. In December 1991, she received a letter from the military post four miles away from her home asking her to send her daughter to the camp. She did not respond and four or five soldiers burst into her house soon thereafter. They grabbed her daughter and carried her out screaming, clubbing the girl’s fourteen year-old brother who tried to protect her. Rohima Kathun waited six weeks for news of her daughter and then decided to flee to Bangladesh. Dilara Begum, 16, from Hashuradha village, Maingdaw township, reported that in mid-February 1992, she was at home with her three week-old baby. Her husband, Habibul Rahman, 30, had been serving as a forced labourer but was allowed to come home every night. When he once failed to report to the camp on time, two soliders came to her house and asked for the whereabouts of her husband. She did not answer and was immediately seized and raped by both soldiers in front of her family. Dilara Begum reported that she had been raped by soldiers on many occasions over the past two years, and that this abuse was common in her village. Jaharu Begum, 20, from Lapia, Devina, Akyab District, reported that in November 1991, four or five soldiers came to her house at about 1 a.m., kicked down the door and abducted her husband for forced labour. Three days later, the same soldiers came back at 1 a.m. or 2 a.m. and took her to the camp, punching and hitting her with rifle butts during the one-hour walk. At the camp, several soldiers raped her continously for approximately 16 hours. Gul Mar, 25, from Ludengpara, Buthidaung township, reported that one afternoon in October 1991, soldiers came to the house where she was living with her husband, 18 month-old daughter and infant son. She was taken, together with 120 other women from her village. Their hands were tied behind their backs and some of them were begging to bring their children along. The soldiers reluctantly untied some of the women to enable them to carry their children. During a march which lasted eight hours, the soldiers grew tired of the crying children. One by one, they took them from their mothers and threw