BY MICHAEL SULLIVAN AND

ASHLEY WESTERMAN

With her 8-year-old son’s head resting in her lap, Zubaida was sitting at home with some other women from her village in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state when the military came — and the gunfire started.

“All the men from the village started running away, and my son ran with them,” Zubaida, 25, says. He didn’t get far: Myanmar soldiers shot him dead — in the back.

That evening, the soldiers came back.

“They didn’t say anything,” she says. “They just came with their guns into my house.”

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