~ ‘They put a sheet of plastic over my head,’ said Naang Yord, ‘and then took turns raping me. I couldn’t see what they did to my two girls, but I heard them panting desperately a little way away. After that I heard two gunshots.’
After that, the soldiers disappeared and Naang Yord was able to free herself. The first thing she saw when she had torn off the plastic sheeting was her niece’s body, lying at a little distance. She had been shot in the ankle, probably because she had tried to crawl away from the soldiers. The second time they had shot her in the head.
The journalist Vasana Chunvarakorn from Bangkok Post met Naang Yord and other women who had endured such abuse, in sheltered accommodation in Thailand. Their pain permeated every word in her article: ‘Those who listen to the survivor’s stories have to push their imaginations to a terrifying limit. The women’s weak voices are heard only as a whisper. They have scars on their foreheads, ankles and wrists. Their skin seems to give off a scent of dejection, with distant traces of suppressed rage. Can anyone really handle what they have experienced?’ ~
- excerpt from the book 'Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography', by Jesper Bengtsson.
I am so reminded about the plight of all the Tamil women in Sri Lanka! :-(
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