North Darfur girl abducted, gang raped for two days
A 14-year-old girl, who was abducted from a village about 17 kilometres west of Kabkabiya in North Darfur on Friday evening, is recovering in hospital after a two-day gang-rape ordeal. A member of the girl’s family told Radio Dabanga that “she was abducted at gunpoint by pro-government militiamen while tending a farm near to the village with her 65-year-old grandmother”. It reportedly took a group of citizens to free her from her captors, who had allegedly taken turns to rape her continuously over two days. The group who freed her managed to arrest one of the alledged perpetrators.“They handed him over to the commander of the region, Sheikh Musa Hilal demanding that he be punished,” the relative said. The girl was admitted to Kabkabiya hospital in a serious condition. Child brides The displaced of the camps in Sirba locality, West Darfur, have highlighted the violence suffered by women who are married-off too young. A woman activist from Abu Suruj camp told Radio Dabanga that the parents of schoolgirls in the camps are marrying their daughters at an early age, taking them out of basic education. The activist branded this trend “systematic violence against women”, appealing via Radio Dabanga to the parents in the camps not to do this. She believes women must have active role in the community, and demanded the extension of women’s rights to the rural areas and small communities of Darfur. “The women’s rights in Darfur, especially in the rural areas, are so abused that the women do not even know their rights are being abused,” she asserted. As previously reported by Radio Dabanga, in a statement on Darfur to the UN Security Council in June, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, highlighted “the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war” as one of the crimes for which “impunity must end”. File photo: Activists are calling for “the extension of women’s rights” to Darfur’s rural women (The girl featured in this photo is not mentioned in the article) (Albert González Farran/Unamid)Related: South Darfur police refuse to file rape report of 17-year-old (2 August 2013) Women grab AK-47, drive-off would-be rapists in West Darfur (22 June 2013)Seven women, including three schoolgirls gang-raped in West Darfur (21 June 2013)
A 14-year-old girl, who was abducted from a village about 17 kilometres west of Kabkabiya in North Darfur on Friday evening, is recovering in hospital after a two-day gang-rape ordeal.
A member of the girl’s family told Radio Dabanga that “she was abducted at gunpoint by pro-government militiamen while tending a farm near to the village with her 65-year-old grandmother”.
It reportedly took a group of citizens to free her from her captors, who had allegedly taken turns to rape her continuously over two days. The group who freed her managed to arrest one of the alledged perpetrators.
“They handed him over to the commander of the region, Sheikh Musa Hilal demanding that he be punished,” the relative said.
The girl was admitted to Kabkabiya hospital in a serious condition.
Child brides
The displaced of the camps in Sirba locality, West Darfur, have highlighted the violence suffered by women who are married-off too young.
A woman activist from Abu Suruj camp told Radio Dabanga that the parents of schoolgirls in the camps are marrying their daughters at an early age, taking them out of basic education.
The activist branded this trend “systematic violence against women”, appealing via Radio Dabanga to the parents in the camps not to do this.
She believes women must have active role in the community, and demanded the extension of women’s rights to the rural areas and small communities of Darfur.
“The women’s rights in Darfur, especially in the rural areas, are so abused that the women do not even know their rights are being abused,” she asserted.
As previously reported by Radio Dabanga, in a statement on Darfur to the UN Security Council in June, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, highlighted “the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war” as one of the crimes for which “impunity must end”.
File photo: Activists are calling for “the extension of women’s rights” to Darfur’s rural women (The girl featured in this photo is not mentioned in the article) (Albert González Farran/Unamid)
Related:
South Darfur police refuse to file rape report of 17-year-old (2 August 2013)
Women grab AK-47, drive-off would-be rapists in West Darfur (22 June 2013)
Seven women, including three schoolgirls gang-raped in West Darfur (21 June 2013)
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