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By Shahanoor Akter Chowdhury, MA, MSS, PHR consultant; Lindsey Green, MA, PHR senior program coordinator, Program on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones; Linda Kaljee, PhD, senior research investigator, Henry Ford Health System, Global Health Initiative; Thomas McHale, SM, PHR deputy director, Program on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones; and Ranit Mishori, MD, MSH, PHR senior medical advisor, professor of family medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine.
In August 2017, the armed forces of Myanmar (Tatmadaw) unleashed a campaign of widespread and systematic attacks on the country’s Rohingya communities, escalating previous episodes of violent human rights abuses committed against the Rohingya population. The United Nations (UN) and multiple human rights groups documented that Myanmar security forces committed rape, gang rape, sexual slavery, forced nudity, genital mutilation and other forms of violence targeting sexual organs, sexual assault, and threats and attempts at