Phyu Phyu Sann
Bio:
Phyu Phyu Sann is the Burma researcher at the Global Justice Center and carries out a wide range of research on Burma on legal, political, constitutional, and gender-related issues. As part of the GJC's project on Criminal Accountability for Heinous Crimes in Burma, she coordinates and works with partners, including Burmese and ethnic groups, UN agencies, and Human Rights NGOs, with the aim of upholding international commitments to the rule of law in Burma.
WMC Women Under Siege
License to rape: How Burma’s military employs systematic sexualized violence
Last week, a young woman from the Karen ethnic minority in Burma reported being “beaten, drugged, and sexually assaulted by two men wearing army fatigues.” In November 2011, reports emerged that four women were being kept as sex slaves by the Burmese military near the Kachin-China border; forced to cook and clean during the day and gang-raped at night by the soldiers in the Light Infantry Battalion 321. These reports, unfortunately, are not rare.
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