Wave to rape babies

bangkok - After the wave of violence that erupted against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar last year, a baby boom is now expected in the refugee camps just across the border in Bangladesh.

Rohingya women were raped en masse by the Myanmar army, which drove much of the Muslim minority out of the country.

It is estimated that this year 48,000 babies are born in the overpopulated reception camps. ' On Friday it was exactly nine months ago that the enormous influx of refugees started.

In the coming months we expect more babies who have been conceived by rape, 'says Daphnée Cook of Save the Children, who works in the camps near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.

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