E/CN.4/2001/66 page 158 800. The Special Rapporteur has also received information according to which women, in particular those members of ethnic minority groups, have been subjected to torture and rape at the hands of the military authorities. Those incidents have reportedly occurred in several types of context, including forcible relocation, forced labour and counter-insurgency activities against armed opposition groups. In particular, the Special Rapporteur transmitted information about the following individual cases. 801. Naw Po Thu, a 12-year-old girl from Ha Ta Re village tract, Hpa’an district, was allegedly raped and killed by government armed forces personnel in October 1998. She was taken with two other people to act as guides for troops based in Myawaddy. She was allegedly raped by a major and managed to escape, but was captured and raped again and then shot dead. When the body was recovered, witnesses reportedly found that a gunshot wound from a handgun had entered the body at the vagina and exited at the chin. The major is said to have given the girl’s family minor compensation for her death. 802. Nang Pang, a woman from Wan To Mon village, Murnpan township, reportedly died in the aftermath of having been raped and kicked by government soldiers in October 1997. After she threatened to tell their captain, a lieutenant allegedly kicked her in the chest and threatened to kill her. She is said to have been taken to Thailand in December 1997 in order to get medical treatment, but she reportedly died in January 1998 because her family could not afford to pay for surgery. 803. By letter dated 23 October 2000, the Special Rapporteur reminded the Government of a number of cases transmitted in 1996, 1997 and 1998 regarding which no reply had been received. Urgent appeals 804. On 9 June 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Daw Khin Nu and Daw Chaw, both aged in their late 60s or early 70s. They were reportedly arrested on 27 May 2000 in Rangoon and were said to be currently detained in Insein prison without access to their families or proper medical care. They were arrested allegedly because they had let their property to the National League for Democracy (NLD), the main opposition party in Myanmar. On 27 May, the NLD had reportedly celebrated the tenth anniversary of its 1990 election victory and had held a ceremony at their headquarters there. Both women are reportedly being denied essential medication, which they must take on a regular basis. 805. By the same urgent appeal, the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information according to which in the run-up to the above-mentioned anniversary, a considerable number, possibly hundreds, of NLD members and supporters had been arrested. More than 150 persons were said to have been arrested on politically motivated charges in the first five months of 2000 by the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). Those arrested allegedly include NLD youth organizers, members of local organizing committees and at least 12 members of the parliament-elect. They were said to have been detained incommunicado.