An 18-year-old Arakan woman has said she was raped on April 8 by Second Captain Site Bo Aung, 27, of 232 Battalion based in Sittwe Partalie village.
The woman (whose name is being withheld to protect her identity), from a village in Paletwa Township, was going to gather vegetables when she and two friends noticed they were being followed by Second Captain Bo Aung and two other soldiers.
After more than two years since Cyclone Nargis hit Burma, the lack of drinking water continues to affect more than 180,000 residents of the Irrawaddy Delta region, according to the United Nation’s office in Rangoon.
Victims were from Labutta, Bogalay, and Mawlamyine Kyun Townships, the UN office’s spokesman, Aye Win, told Mizzima. He added that water scarcity was exacerbated by the dry season and that residents lacked an effective way to get water.
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