The Burmese military government has denied recent allegations of institutionalized rape by military officers against ethnic Shan women in its ongoing civil war. The accusations were brought against the state in “License to Rape,” a report released in May by the Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) and the Shan Women’s Action Network (SWAN). In response to the report, Burmese Foreign Minister Win Aung said, "Action will be taken against those who are found to have committed such crimes. This is not policy. We would never dream of that. We would try to find the facts, if there are factual truths to find." Win Aung also expressed doubts about the credibility of the report’s authors.
