The women about whom she writes endured child abuse, rape, gang rape, abduction and the forced parting of parents and children.
A new report by Freedom from Torture reveals the routine use rape, gang rape and multiple rape to torture politically active women in official state detention centres in the country.
In his May 2013 report to the security council, the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, noted the conflict's devastating impact on women and girls, highlighting continuous reports of sexual violence including rape, gang rape and sexual slavery.
Even as they searched the DNA databases and sex offenders register, another rape gang struck, this time robbing and savaging the 20-year-old daughter of missing Susie Rushworth.
The report, If They Had Hope, They Would Speak (pdf), highlights 118 incidences of rape, gang rape and sexual assault in both ceasefire and non-ceasefire areas at the hands of Burma's armed forces since 2010 – but notes that these figures are likely to be "a fraction" of the number of abuses actually taking place.
Here's what can be found in the 200 pages of "Love": murder, arson, the maiming of a little girl, fetishism, pedophilia, rape, gang rape, statutory rape, prostitution, blackmail, sadomasochism, defenestration, the corruption of various minors, masturbation and an angry mob containing a kid who throws a bucket of "animal waste" all over the owner of a nice hotel.
No matter where you are in the world, the result of rape -- "date rape," "gang-rape," "easy rape," "emergency rape," "war rape" -- is the same: oppression.
While the media and public were rightfully appalled by the mass nature of the assaults, "Arab-looking" men have no monopoly on street harassment, rape, gang-rape, sexual harassment and violence.
The government on the planet had collapsed, and the sisters were forced to scavenge for food while avoiding rape gangs.
This isn't the date-rape gang bang you thought it might evolve into.
Incidents of rapes and gang rapes seem to have become increasingly common in India.
