YANGON: Child rape cases in Myanmar have surged by 40 percent this year, state media said on Wednesday, highlighting a growing problem for the country still grappling with a dark past of rights abuses.
Poverty and weak laws mean Myanmar’s children are highly vulnerable to abuse, with many of them sold into to labor or forcibly recruited to fight in the country’s borderlands.
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