Three women gang-raped in West Darfur

Militiamen raped three women of the Bir Dageeg camp for the displaced in West Darfur on Monday. The spokesperson for the Sirba camps told Radio Dabanga that four “government-backed militiamen wearing military uniforms” assaulted three women in the area of Goz Segeit, west of the Bir Dageeg camp in the locality of Sirba. They were tending their farms in the morning, when the militiamen took them at gunpoint to Wadi Goz Segeit. There they alternately raped them. The women were released late on Monday evening. “The incident was reported with the police, but they did not do anything to pursue the criminals.” The spokesperson added that the women, 30, 25, and 18 years old, are in a state of shock. They are being treated with pills from the camp because the health centres are short of medicines. He noted that 83 cases of rape took place during the past two years in the locality of Sirba. “The authorities are responsible for all the attacks that happened and are happening to women and all the displaced.” File photo