33 RAPE Armed traffickers on board ships kept Rohingya women and girls in separate quarters from men and boys. Three survivors testified to the Commission that they saw men rape women on a ship at sea, in a camp, and on their way to the border of Malaysia.49 “Passengers” on two separate ships told Fortify Rights of traffickers raping Rohingya women and girls on board the ship. “Begum B.,” 50, spent time on a small boat before boarding a ship in international waters, where she witnessed traffickers rape women at sea: On the small boat, we were okay, but when we moved to the larger ship, we had problems. There were some Rakhine and Burmese Buddhists on the boat, and there were a lot of young women with me. The [traffickers] were trying to rape them. When I told them they shouldn’t do it, they beat me. I saw two women raped [at sea]. One was 15-years old and one was 12-years old. A Rakhine man and a Burman man raped them. [The 12-year old later] died in the mountain camp in Thailand. When I left the camp, the 15-year old was still there.50 “Raheem,” 27, also witnessed armed traffickers rape women and girls on board a ship from Myanmar to Thailand. He told Fortify Rights: The girls were scared, so they agreed to sleep with the men. I saw it happen, but I was unable to speak about it. When we asked for water, they beat us, so how could we speak up about that? The women were aged 15 to 20.51 TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT Armed traffickers at sea violently inflicted pain and suffering on their captives using pipes, bats, clubs, belts, wires, tasers, nails, threats and intimidation, and other means. Two Rohingya survivors testified to the Commission that crew members of the trafficking ship beat them, and six survivors testified that they witnessed onboard traffickers severely beat others on their respective vessels.52 Two survivors testified that the traffickers forced them to sit for protracted periods in a bended position on the ship and traffickers hit those who refused to do so.53 “Ebadullah,” 25, told Fortify Rights that traffickers beat him and others with heavy sticks: “If someone tried to move in the boat, they would beat us. Those who didn’t move were beaten too.”54 “Yusuf,” 19, told Fortify Rights: “There were some Rohingya people who treated us well. We didn’t interact with the Thais. They beat us. They beat almost every person on the boat. They used plastic pipes.”55 Fortify Rights noted wounds on his leg and backside.56 “Raheem,” 27, told Fortify Rights: “I couldn’t request anything of [the traffickers], or they’d beat me. They used many things—bats, wooden sticks, hands, feet.”57 “Mohammed Khan,” 25, told Fortify Rights that the traffickers used thick belts to beat him and others on the ship and that he suspected the traffickers on board the ships had firearms: 49 The Commission interviews with W1, W2, and, W10. 50 Fortify Rights interview with #15, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 12, 2014. 51 Fortify Rights interview with #23, Johor State, Malaysia, August 15, 2014. 52 The Commission interviews with W1, W2, W3, W7, W10, W13, W16, and W18. 53 The Commission interviews with W2 and W3. 54 Fortify Rights interview with #04, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 10, 2014. 55 Fortify Rights interview with #05, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 10, 2014. 56 Ibid. 57 Fortify Rights interview with #23, Johor State, Malaysia, August 15, 2014.