A Sri Lankan woman employed as a housemaid in Kuwait and who was allegedly raped by a group of Bangladeshi men resulting in her getting pregnant, arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport yesterday.
Instead of being taken to the ‘Sahana Piyasa’ (relief centre) as was the usual procedure, she had been given her bus fare and sent home.
She was among 40 Sri Lankan women who were reportedly ill treated while serving as housemaids in several West Asian countries and returned to the country yesterday.
The woman who wished to remain anonymous shared her harrowing story with The Sunday Times.
While she was on her way to a shop near the house she was employed, a group of Bangladeshi men had abducted her and taken her in a van to a distant house where she was held for two months, she said.
“Six of the men would rape me at random intervals. Finally the police arrived and rescued me. Now I am two months pregnant,” she said.
She said her first employer had tried to seduce her, and so she had run away to a foreign employment agency office. There she had been sent to another house, where she wasn’t paid for her work. She went back to the agency once again, and was sent to another house.
“I had to face trouble at that place too, so I complained to the Embassy, but the Embassy sent me back to the same place,” she said.
It was during her stay at that house that the Bangladeshi men had abducted her.
After hearing her story, the police who rescued her arranged for her return to Sri Lanka. | 
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