Bangladesh s rape victims cry for justice in the wilderness
The scourge of rape is extremely high but the rate of prosecution frustratingly low in the Muslim-majority nation
The trauma she experienced in July 2020 will never be forgotten by ethnic Garo housewife Sufola Mankin.
The 27-year-old Catholic from the Fulbaria area of Mymensingh district, 90 kilometers from Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, was kidnapped by three Bengali Muslim men on July 2, confined in a remote place and brutally raped for six consecutive days.
“My husband works abroad and sends money to me by mobile banking app. A local shopkeeper targeted me and made an indecent proposal, which I strongly refused. He plotted with two others to abduct and rape me,” Sufola (not her real name) told UCA News.