CHIN REFUGEE WOMAN ESCAPES SEXUAL HARRASSMENT FROM BANGLADESHI WORKER

BY SALAI CC

A refugee woman recently escaped from an incident of sexual harassment and possible attempted rape exploited by a Bangladeshi worker who had unwelcomingly entered a victim’s accommodation provided by the Chinese employer at a construction site. 

The perpetrator, identified as a Bangladeshi worker, had allegedly entered the victim's accommodation after the man realized a woman was staying alone. The incident occurred at approximately 11 o'clock local time yesterday.

Mrs. Par Zi, from Thangtlang Tsp, had come to Malaysia to reunite with her husband, Lal Hmun Sang, in the mid of 2009 after a long separation. They are registered with the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Kuala Lumpur. The couple has four children and currently works at different locations under the same employer.

The mother of four, who has been working at the site for several months, was extremely frightened and had yelled for help while the sexual attacker was collapsed on the floor inside her room. Nobody seemed to have taken notice. The incident was likely to have happened after the man was aroused after the sight of a woman coming out of the shower wrapped only with a sarong. 

Fortunately, after a quick struggle out of the terrifying situation, the victim managed to contact her employer immediately and was able to inform the husband through their Chinese employer. 

“I was stunned with disbelief at first. But I arrived at the scene shortly after receiving information from my boss about the incident and I confronted the Bangladeshi worker who attempted to rape my wife. But I was constantly stopped by my employer,” the furious husband informed. 

According to his employer, the report has been lodged to the nearest police station and they [the police] are ready to take every appropriate action against the perpetrator.

The Chin Refugee Committee (CRC) condemned the incident and expressed their concern for the personal safety of the victim at her workplace. 

“We will contact the employer to make sure that every refugee working at the construction site is protected from other aliens who are normally offensive against the refugees. Some menial workers are malevolent and harmful to other workers who have basically low self-esteem due to their status,” a coordinator commented. 

The company of workers were stunned and enraged after learning what had happened to the only woman employed as a store keeper within the construction building.

Investigations are expected to be carried out promptly after the victim's family has agreed for the police to take action against the offender who had intentionally entered Mrs. Par Zi accommodation and committed the harassment. 

Chin Asylum-seeker Girl Seriously Injured in An Abducted attack

Photo: VOCR

Puchung (VOCR), March 22, 2012: A Chin asylum seeker girl, who is known as Tum Zi from Tlangkhua, Thantlang Tsp, Chin state, was abducted to get a ride on the motor-bike by a man while she was lost on the way back home from looking for a job in TESCO area in Puchung, northern suburban from Kuala Lumpur.

“I just recently arrived in Malaysia and working in a restaurant where the working hour is very long and decided to find a better job in TESCO area when I got a day off” said the victim in an interview with The VOCR, adding that she is very new and inexperience to Malaysia which led her unnoticeably got on a bus which heads to different destination from where she lives.

When noticed the bus going to different way, she turned to ask the bus driver where the bus was heading. Having being told to get off from the bus, she tried her best to find the nearest bus-stop for the fact that she is petrified of getting taxi alone.

While she was looking for the nearest bus-stop, a man claimed by the victim as a Rohinya with his motor-bike crossed the road and finding her walking alone and turned back to her and approaching her. Immediately, she was asked whether where she wanted to go home, the man apparently persuaded her to get her sent off home by his motor-bike.

Despite attempts to refuse him, as there is no one walking around the area, he finally forcibly abducted her to get on his motor-bike with threats to be harmed if prepared to run away.

After following him for just a little while, the man started physically harassing her body with question repeatedly asking her nationality. Even so, she honestly still replied that she is an asylum seeker from Chin state, Burma. The man seemed to doubly speed up his motor-bike driving.

Photo: VOCR

The incident taken place is believed to be around 4:30 p.m on 20^th of this month.

Learning that she will surely be harmed if continuously followed him, she decided to better die on the road than facing a physical abuse by the man which is the sole trigger for jumping down from the motor-bike on the full speeding run.

She was left seriously injured in several places on her body and not even knowing how she was brought up to the Burmese shop near her residence. As soon as she could manage to get home, she fell unconscious for couple of hours and later gaining a recovery back, yelled her roommate.

Also, her roommate added that the incident was so horrifically tragic that she feels as if it was a dreaming.

Asked how she could manage to get home, according to her friend who went to Burmese shop the next morning for further information, it was suggested that she might possibly be brought to the nearby Burmese shop by the perpetrator himself knowing that she is a Chin asylum seeker living in the surrounding area which purportedly causes suspicion that he might be closely associated with the businessmen working at Burmese shop.  The allegation is taken based on the way the Burmese respond.

Meanwhile, the Burmese people at the shop also deny connection with the incident but rather claimed that she approached to them by herself and even providing her with some medical attention, instead.

The victim herself does not know how she can get home during an interview with The VOCR.  

Prior to this, there was a similar kind of incident occurred that Ngun Uk Mang from the same village was once stabbed in his back at the drunken brawl with the Burmese guys from the shop four months ago. He was said to have been normal from his wounds as he had medical treatment for couple of days at hospital.

It was learnt that the victim is currently being assisted both mentally and physically by the Chin Refugee Committee (CRC).



By Simon