Women gang-raped in Central Darfur and in Chad

A 25-year-old woman has been repeatedly raped, allegedly by pro-government militiamen, the area of Kebe in Nertiti locality, Central Darfur, on Wednesday. On Thursday, a 15-year-old Sudanese refugee was gang raped in eastern Chad. A relative of the Nertiti victim told Radio Dabanga that the woman was tending her farm when she was accosted by three militiamen, who then allegedly took turns raping her. The relative appealed to humanitarian and human rights organisations to intervene and protect displaced persons, especially women, from attacks by government militiamen. A 15-year-old Sudanese refugee girl from camp Gaga in eastern Chad was reportedly gang raped by three men from the camp on Thursday. Sheikh Yassin Abdelkarim told Radio Dabanga that the security authorities arrested three perpetrators who have reportedly confessed to the crime. He called on the autorities to raise the maximum penalty for these crimes. 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: Repeated reports reaching Radio Dabanga confirm that Darfur’s rural women and girls run the constant risk of assault and rape by marauding armed groups across the region (The girl featured in this photo is not mentioned in the article) (Albert González Farran/Unamid) Related: Daughter escapes, militias rape mother in North Darfur (13 August 2013) North Darfur girl abducted, gang raped for two days (4 August 2013) South Darfur police refuse to file rape report of 17-year-old (2 August 2013)