Silent pain: Rohingya rape survivors’ babies quietly emerge

  UKHIYA, Bangladesh --- Tucked away in the shadows of her family's bamboo shelter, the girl hid from the world.   She was 13, and she was petrified. Two months earlier, soldiers had broken into her home back in Myanmar and raped her, an attack that drove her and her terrified family over the border to Bangladesh. Ever since, she had waited for her period to arrive. Gradually, she came to realize that it would not.   For the girl, a Rohingya Muslim who agreed to be identified by her first initial, A, the pregnancy was a prison she was desperate to escape. The rape itself had destroyed her innocence. But carrying the baby of a Buddhist soldier could destr...

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