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Chairman. She was made to forcibly dress up and was taken from home. She was then forced
along the road, with the LC1 Chairman aggressively pushing her along the way.
[6.] When they arrived at what she presumed was the Chairman’s office, she was made to sit in
the said office for an unknown period of time and during that time, when she kindly asked if she
could be directed to the ‘loo’, her request was refused. As a result, she had to suffer gross pain
forcing her to ‘pee’ on herself.
[7.] She was uncomfortable and humiliated having to sit on her own urine for a great length of
time and being refused access to the toilet. After a while, a woman took pity on her and asked
the Chairman to allow her to go to the toilet. When she was finally allowed to go to the toilet,
she was roughly shoved to the toilet by an armed male local defence unit soldier in view of
whom she was unable to relive herself due to his presence and the trauma she was
experiencing at that time.
[8.] When she returned from the toilet, the Chairman disgustedly pointed at her saying to a
group of men and women, ‘I found this creature in my area idle and disorderly’. After a while, the
aforementioned LDU soldier was ordered by the Chairman to ‘jerk’ her by the waist so that she
would not escape. The woman who had pleaded for her earlier on to be allowed to use the toilet
tried to pacify the Chairman, but he refused to listen to her. She was thereafter physically
man-handled and dragged to an unknown destination.
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