Sudan: 'There is not a single woman in Khartoum now who feels safe, not even in her own home.'
Posted on June 7, 2023 15:10
“We’re not the first people this has happened to, or the last,” she said. Sudan’s war has claimed at least 1,800 lives and displaced over 1.5 million people. In their scorched-earth campaign since 2003, they committed genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, including rape, according to the International Criminal Court.Now “mass rapes” are again being reported in Darfur, said Adjaratou Ndiaye, the UN Women representative in Sudan. In one case, 12 women were stopped by gunmen in late April and ordered to join in looting a warehouse, said Amna, a local human rights defender.
as hospitals have been ransacked or destroyed. Many cases have been reported by civil society groups known as resistance committees, which long campaigned for democracy. Khalifa said the unit had also received news “of assaults by perpetrators in army uniform” but had “not yet been able to confirm” these. A resistance committee member said in another attack last month three army soldiers stormed a northern Khartoum home, “beat the son and raped both mother and daughter”.Sudan: Upsurge of nostalgic supporters of Bashir and Islamic extremists, warns analyst
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