Since war erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces SAF and the Rapid Support Forces RSF more than 16 months ago, women human rights defenders in Sudan are bearing the brunt. The El Alag Centre for Press Services, member of the Sudan Media Campaign, spoke with several women lawyers who fled their home or shelter in El Gezira.
Since the outbreak of war between the Sudan ese army and the RSF in Khartoum on April 15 last year, and the rapid spread of the fighting to Darfur, Kordofan, and central Sudan , more than 10 million people, most of them women and children, fled their homes in search of safe havens inside and outside Sudan to escape the killings and rapes.
"When the RSF were beleaguering El Gezira state and agents of the General Intelligence Service and Military Intelligence increased their persecution and detention of human rights activists and their relatives, my family and I also received threats that forced us to leave. I thus lost my source of livelihood as a lawyer," S.M. reported.
"My family and I fled the city, carrying only a few clothes with us. We found refuge in the home of our relatives in countryside nearby. We lived there with 41 people in one house for four days, when gunmen entered the area. They stormed the houses, fired at us, and robbed us of our belongings. For L.S. her and her family's movement became restricted after the RSF occupied the area."Even leaving the house became impossible because we were threatened. Three armed men stormed the house. They pointed their weapons at my nephew's head, and they stole everything we owned. We able to hide our phones. They also tried to take my niece with them, fortunately they did not succeed," she said.
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