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Rohingya Rape Survivors' Babies Quietly Emerge

(5 Jul 2018) MORE THAN 10 MONTHS AFTER MYANMAR'S SECURITY FORCES LAUNCHED A SWEEPING CAMPAIGN OF RAPE AND OTHER BRUTALITIES AGAINST ROHINGYA MUSLIMS.. A NEW WAVE OF ANGUISH. SOUNDBITE (Rohingya dialect) "S," Rohingya Rape Survivor: "I felt ashamed and scared and thought people would taunt me." FOR THE RAPE SURVIVORS WHO BECAME PREGNANT DURING LAST SUMMER'S ATTACKS ON ROHINGYA VILLAGES, MANY HAVE SPENT THE PAST YEAR IN FEAR AND ISOLATION. THE BABIES NOT ONLY SERVE AS REMINDERS OF THE HORRORS THE WOMEN SURVIVED, BUT A CHILD CONCEIVED BY BUDDHISTS IS SEEN AS A SACRILEGE. SOUNDBITE (Rohingya dialect) "M," Rohingya Rape Survivor: "I told my husband when I was four months pregnant and he said it's my bad luck that my wife fell into the hands of non-believers. everyone escaped but you couldn't get away. / He only talks to our children and goes away. He doesn't talk to me." THIS WOMAN, WHO IS ONLY BEING IDENTIFIED BY HER INITIAL M, SAYS SHE KEPT HER BABY, BUT CAN'T HELP RESENTING HIM. SOUNDBITE (Rohingya dialect) "M," Rohingya Rape Survivor: "I don't love him from inside, I feed him milk because I have to but from inside my heart, I don't want to love him." SOUNDBITE (English) Daphnee Cook, Spokeswoman for Save the Children: "For us, the largest concern is that these children born at this time of year may grow up with a stigma attached to them, a stigma of a woman being born of woman who was sexually assaulted." DESPITE THE RISK OF SPEAKING OUT, THESE WOMEN AND GIRLS ARE SHARING THEIR STORIES WITH THE HOPES THAT THE WORLD WILL HEAR THEIR PLEAS. GIVEN THE VASTNESS OF THE SEXUAL VIOLENCE DOCUMENTED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAST YEAR, RELIEF GROUPS HAD BRACED FOR A SPIKE IN DELIVERIES FROM TRAUMATIZED WOMEN. BUT THE BIRTH NUMBERS HAVE REMAINED RELATIVELY STEADY. AID WORKERS SUSPECT MANY OF THE WOMEN TOOK MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS, INCLUDING CHEAP ABORTION PILLS AVAILABLE AT THE REFUGEE CAMPS IN BANGLADESH. SOUNDBITE (Rohingya dialect) "D," Rohingya Rape Survivor: "I collected medicine from here and there, first I took three then four then two tablets gradually...Praise God! In the third month, the abortion happened." OTHERS HAVE DETERMINED THEY SIMPLY CAN'T RAISE THE CHILD. SOUNDBITE (English) Daphnee Cook, Spokeswoman for Save the Children: "Some women have made the heartbreaking decision to leave behind their babies. Each of these babies have been treated on a case by case basis with highly trained management support." IN ADDITION TO BEING SHUNNED BY HER HUSBAND, THIS WOMAN STILL STRUGGLES TO COPE WITH THE TRAUMA SHE EXPERIENCED WHEN SHE WAS RAPED. SOUNDBITE (Rohingya dialect) "M," Rohingya Rape Survivor: "I cry day and night and I can still see the incident right in front of my eyes" AND FOR SOME OF THESE ROHINGYA WOMEN, THAT PAIN IS REFLECTED IN THE EYES RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM. KRYSTA FAURIA, ASSOCIATED PRESS Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...