Rohingya women have come forward with stories of sexual assault, beatings and torture at the hands of Burmese security forces. More than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled into Bangladesh to escape an offensive by the Burmese military described as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” by the United Nations. Sunuara, 25, who only gave her first name, fled to neighbouring Bangladesh after her village was attacked on 25 August.
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