Two raped, eight missing in Darfur school group attack

Two basic school students were raped and eight others are missing after an attack in West Jebel Marra today.

“Government troops attacked a group of 17 basic school students at 9 am as they walked from Golo to Nierteti, in Central Darfur, to sit for their final exams,” a parent told Dabanga.

“The group of Class 8 students included 10 girls and seven boys,” he explained. “Two of the girls, aged 15 and 14, were found in a ditch after they had been raped.

“Eight girls disappeared. As of Wednesday evening, we have not found any trace of them. We retrieved five boys and two girls in the area of Dogi Ja, west of Golo.”

Other sources told Dabanga that the government troops stationed at Jebel Birto, north of Golo, consisting of paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Border Guards, Central Reserve Police (Abu Tira), other militiamen, and army soldiers, continued their attacks, plundering, and torching houses in the area today.

“They raided a number of houses in the area. They beat the residents, robbed them of their belongings, and torched their houses afterwards,” one of them reported.

Hiding

The residents who fled the villages of Birdani, Kara, Korma, Loni, and Tiro, near Golo, yesterday, are still hiding in the valleys and mountains.

One of them urged through Dabanga the UN and relief organizations to intervene “as soon as possible, to protect them from the attacks by government forces”.