Five women, including two minors, raped in North Darfur

Elements of the Central Reserve Police raped four women near Shangil Tobaya, North Darfur, on Friday. The day before, militiamen gang raped a girl in North Darfur’s Kutum locality. Speaking to Radio Dabanga from the area of Shangil Tobaya, a brother of one of the victims said that troops of the Central Reserve Police (known as Abu Tira) raped four women, aged 17, 21, 25, and 28 years-old, near El Fasher-Nyala road on Friday. “The Abu Tira troops were part of the government forces protecting a large government convoy of fuel tankers en route from El Fasher to Nyala. When the convoy passed through Hillet El Doma, these gunmen seized the four women, and raped them.” KutumOn Thursday, three militiamen gang raped a 14 year-old girl in the area of Sangar, west of Kutum town in North Darfur. A farmer reported to Radio Dabanga that three gunmen on camelback assaulted the girl when she and her grandmother were tending their farmland. “They seized her, and raped her alternately.” “The victim was transferred in a very bad state to a hospital in Kutum for treatment.” File photo: A patch used by the Central Reserve Forces (Abu Tira) shows an eagle clutching a red sun, over an Eye of Horus. The Arabic text reads, “Central Reserve: The Police in Service of the People.” (Enough Project/Flickr)  Related:Mother, daughter gang-raped in Kabkabiya, North Darfur (2 September 2014)Four women, including two minors, gang-raped in Darfur (31 August 2014) Militiamen kill one, rape two, surround North Darfur camp (15 August 2014) Man killed, students assaulted, women raped in Kutum, North Darfur (14 August 2014) Militiamen kill, rape displaced in North Darfur (1 August 2014)Abu Tira rape seven, destroy water tank in North Darfur’s Zamzam camp (15 May 2014)