Miss Sakina Khatoon, age 23,daughter of Mohamed Modu hailed from Ambari village of Akyab(Sittwe), the capital of the Arakan State was raped by a Burmese soldier on 23th July 2002 and the culprit is still set free by the authorities, said a relative of victim.
According to the relative and local traders of the area, at about 09:30 pm a soldier of Burma Army Battalion No.20 of Akyab came to the shop of Sakina Khatoon while she was alone in the shop by pretending a customer. Taking the advantage of none was present there and also the rain was falling cat and dog at that time, the culprit quickly switched off the light entering the shop and forcibly raped the girl with dagger point. It is learnt that some shops were built near the Army Headquarters by the main street and not far away from the Ambari Rohingya village.

After sometime, hearing the hue and cry several shopkeepers who rushed to the spot to rescue the victim, but the culprit managed to escape from the scene in the cover of darkness, the local traders further said.

Next morning, the matter was reported to the concerned authority of the Battalion No.20, but the officer-in-charge of the investigation centre in the Army Headquarters refused to take the case. The Army Headquarters also verbally ordered concerned police station not to register the FIR in this regard, said another relative of the victim.

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