suffering was punishment for her husband and son as the raided forces were unable to find them during their raid on the house. Her testimony reveals a chilling pattern of gendered violence perpetrated by the AA. In August 2024, she was abducted during a wave of raids targeting Rohingya villages and was taken into custody, where she endured beatings, humiliation, and rape. Her abductors made it clear that the violence inflicted upon her was directly connected to the refusal of her male relatives to join the AA. The AA did not merely use rape as a weapon of personal abuse; it deployed it as a form of collective punishment and coercion. Noor Banu’s experience highlights the role of forced displacement and strategic isolation in this violence. After her abduction, she was taken to the hills and later imprisoned in Buthidaung township. There, she was subjected to sexual violence and waskept under conditions of extreme deprivation, receiving only one packet of food per day. Her perpetrators monitored her movements strictly, and any attempt to leave or communicate was met with threats of death. Eventually, she managed to escape while searching for water, a rare moment of unsupervised activity that she used to flee. Her return to her village did not bring relief. Instead, she encountered rejection and blame from her family and community, compounding her trauma with social ostracization. Her husband threatened separation, and relatives distanced themselves from her, treating her as a bearer of dishonor rather than a survivor of war crimes. Other testimonies also narrate similar patterns. Nojiba Bibi, abducted from the same village and taken to a nearby school, was gang-raped after refusing sexual compliance under threat of death. She escaped only under the cover of darkness, and upon return, her husband accused her of dishonor and abuse. In another instance, in September 2024, members of the AA forcibly abducted Nojiba from her village and transported her to Gozzin Diya village, where she was imprisoned in a local school building. There, she was subjected to multiple acts of physical and sexual violence. Nojiba clearly identified her perpetrators as members of the AA through their military uniforms, their use of Rakhine language, and their possession of weapons. The abuse she endured was preceded by direct threats: they pointed guns at her, warned that they would abduct or kill her and her family, and demanded that she submit to sexual violence. When she resisted, she was raped. 62