for her identity. Like many other survivors, she identifies that the assaults are a result of religio-ethnic hatred. The testimonies explicitly reveal that the AA is targeting them for being a Rohingya Muslim woman in Rakhine State. Radio Free Asia investigation has documented heartaking accounts of sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls. The victims of the violence have narrated systematic assaults by the AA. For instance, one Rohingya woman and rape victim who asked to remain anonymous over safety concern narrated, “It was in August 2024, I woke up early in the morning after constant knocking at my door. The moment I opened the door a group of AA entered my home by force and kicked me on the ground, groped and physically assaulted me in front of my family members before slaughtering my father-in-law and two of my brother-in-laws and dragging them out of our home.” Assaults like the one mentioned and many more from our testimonies narrate the coordinated sexual violence committed by the AA against Rohingya women during the 2024 conflict in Rakhine State. For many victims, it is a concerted assault on the very identity and continuity of the Rohingya people; ‘an effort to destroy through gendered humiliation, bodily desecration, and psychological annihilation.’ Survivors were not merely victims of battlefield brutality; they were victims of a doctrine of control that relies on rape as a weapon of ethnic cleansing. The calculated selection of women, the use of sexual violence to extract male compliance, and the recurring nature of these crimes across multiple villages speak to the systemic nature of the campaign. This is not incidental violence but a form of genocidal logic, one that understands the female body as both a symbol of lineage and a site of communal continuity, making it a prime target in the destruction of a people. ➔ Punishing Beauty: Sakina Bibi's (Name Changed) Account Sakina Bi Bi (name changed), a young woman of 18 years old and a resident of Maung Ni Fara, discloses in her testimony that she was assaulted because of her good looks. Abducted from her home in the village in 2024, she was chosen for assault due to what her perpetrators described as her physical beauty. This aspect of rape or sexual violence is something of a common pattern in the conflict-ridden regions. As we all know in conflict areas, it is an inevitable reality that young 60