South Korean female naval officer commits suicide after being allegedly raped by a senior colleague.

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The victim, a lieutenant, was found dead in her single-room apartment on Wednesday, where a message was found reading: “Tomorrow, I won’t be in this world any longer.”
“The lieutenant appeared to have committed suicide,” a military spokesman told AFP.
 
She had reportedly told her boyfriend that she had been raped.


“This appears to be a typical case in which a male superior abused his power to violate a female subordinate,” Bang Hye-Lim at the Military Human Rights Centre told AFP.


Military police have arrested a navy captain as a suspect. He admitted to having sex with her but den

ied the rape allegation, the spokesman said.

“It is not rare at all that male chauvinism translates into sex crimes in the military”, she said.