A/HRC/39/CRP.2 “Why did you pass the message to the TNLA?” I told them that I did not, but they didn’t believe me and slapped me. One soldier told the other two to wait outside. He then raped me on the floor on a dry grass mattress. He ripped all my clothes off, so I was completely naked.334 198. Another survivor from Kutkai Township, Shan State, was abducted from her farm in September 2012 by five Tatmadaw soldiers bearing guns. She was forced to work as a porter and cook for the soldiers during the day. One night the senior officer asked her for a massage and then took his clothes off and attempted to rape her. The survivor was able to push him off and escape even though soldiers fired guns in her direction. 335 Another survivor from Kutkai was abducted from her house in 2011 by Tatmadaw soldiers who destroyed her shop before forcing her to carry heavy items to a military base. She and another woman were able to escape that night after the soldiers had told the women they would have to have sex with them.336 199. Several witnesses across both Kachin and Shan States saw sexual abuse and rape committed in military bases337 or in the jungle.338 One witness described seeing 20 soldiers surrounding two girls aged about 15 to 16 years old in the jungle in December 2017, in Tanai Township, Kachin State: The soldiers were punching and slapping them. They pulled their hair. They pushed them on the ground and tore off their clothing. The girls were naked on the ground. 200. The witness ran from the scene in fear and later learned that villagers had found the bodies of the two girls.339 201. Other witnesses personally knew women who had been taken away by the military, 340 women who had been raped, sometimes by several soldiers at once, 341 and women who had fallen pregnant as a result of the rape,342 or had been killed after the rape.343 For example, in 2011, one source who was forcibly recruited for labour by the Tatmadaw in Kunhing Township, Shan State, witnessed three Tatmadaw soldiers force a husband to work as a porter while they took his wife to the forest and raped her. 344 Rape and sexual violence in the home 202. There are consistent accounts of Tatmadaw soldiers, either individually or in groups, attempting to rape women and girls in their homes. 345 Women who were raped in their homes or following abduction recognized the Tatmadaw insignia and the military uniforms.346 One survivor in Lashio Township in Shan State described how, in 2012, when there was fighting between the KIA and the Tatmadaw in her area, a group of soldiers entered her house, killed her parents and raped her: 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 52 PI-066. QI-084. PI-023. PI-025, PI-029. PI-029, PI-083, PI-099. PI-069. PI-096, QI-078. PI-068, QI-072, QI-082, QI-086, QI-089. PI-069, QI-082, QI-098. PI-069, QI-079. PI-083. PI-005, PI-037, PI-057, PI-110, PI-117; see also Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF), Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation (April 2016); SHRF, Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation (November 2015); Ta’ang Women’s Organization, Trained to torture: Systematic war crimes by the Burmese Army in Ta'ang areas of Northern Shan State (March 2011-March 2016); SHRF, Summary of HR violations committed by Burma Army troops during military offensive in Tang Yan, Shan State, from 14-15 April 2013 (April 2013); Kachin Women's Association Thailand, State of Terror in Kachin Hills (February 2013). PI-003, PI-004, PI-005, PI-007, PI-067, PI-068, PI-069, PI-089, QI-082.