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Rohingya women facing worst sexual violence: UN

Dhaka, May 15 (UNI) Despite the Human Rights organisations and NGOs all over the world stepping up to fight for the rights of Rohingya refugees, who fled Mayanmar's violence-affected Rakhine state to find shelters in Bangladesh last year, but the rising crime statistics against women cast a harsh light on the country's systematic problems plaguing the police and court.
According to the latest UN report on conflict-related sexual violence, issued in March, members of the Myanmar Armed Forces, at times acting jointly with local militias, used rape, gangrape, forced public nudity and other sexual attacks as part of a strategy to drive the Rohingya from their homes.
Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, flew to Bangladesh in November to meet the refugees. All the Rohingya women and girls that she spoke to, she said, reported either enduring sexual violence or witnessing it.
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