Women Specifically Targeted in Burma/Myanmar
Many thanks to Dr. Lynette Dumble of the Global Sisterhood Network for sharing this horrifying account of how the Myanmar junta is treating women from Mizzma News,
“When they intervened and arrested peaceful demonstrators, they pushed women on their chest violently and lifted their sarong (skirt) from the bottom, tore apart their blouses, hit and slapped their faces.”
The article also makes unmistakably clear that women are being specifically targeted and mis-treated in prison:
“Then one of them said, “Hey, strike first the people in skirts”. They detained all the demonstrators in the interrogation camp at Kyaikasan ground and in Insein prison. They did not provide sanitary napkins to the women during their periods.
“When I was detained in Insein prison in 2000, they didn’t provide clothes for four days. We had to take a bath naked. We had no spare clothes to change and no sanitary napkins during our periods. Only when we got prison uniforms, we could tear our sarong (skirt) to use as pads during periods. Sometimes, they visited our wards and cells without giving notice. We had to take care of ourselves for our safety and modesty. It’s very difficult to spend 11 and half months in prison in this way”, Ma Ohmar said.”
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