Prominent NCP leader arrested for North Darfur rape
Three men who raped four women 27km from Kabkabiya in North Darfur were arrested on Friday, 6 September. The men allegedly abducted the women and took them to a location in a nearby valley where, they abused them.Outraged local villagers hunted-down the three men and were able to arrest them. The elders ordered each perpetrator to pay a fine of SDG75,000 ($17,000). They are also banned from the region.During the course of the interrogations it emerged that the three suspects play a crucial role in the area. One of the accused is Mohamed Asalil Khater, the commander of the local Central Reserve Forces (Abu Tira). The second is Abubakir Mohamed Ibrahim, known as Hereka, and member of the border guards.The public anger focused especially on the third accused, Bashir Sheikh Ahmed Hanafi. He is the local NCP chairman of the area and also the secretary-general of the Supreme Council for Guidance and Direction in North Darfur (Dawa Islamiya).File photo: A Misseriya woman stands in front of a thatched shelter in Goli, Sudan, March 2009 (Tim McKulka/UN)
Three men who raped four women 27km from Kabkabiya in North Darfur were arrested on Friday, 6 September. The men allegedly abducted the women and took them to a location in a nearby valley where, they abused them.
Outraged local villagers hunted-down the three men and were able to arrest them. The elders ordered each perpetrator to pay a fine of SDG75,000 ($17,000). They are also banned from the region.
During the course of the interrogations it emerged that the three suspects play a crucial role in the area. One of the accused is Mohamed Asalil Khater, the commander of the local Central Reserve Forces (Abu Tira). The second is Abubakir Mohamed Ibrahim, known as Hereka, and member of the border guards.
The public anger focused especially on the third accused, Bashir Sheikh Ahmed Hanafi. He is the local NCP chairman of the area and also the secretary-general of the Supreme Council for Guidance and Direction in North Darfur (Dawa Islamiya).
File photo: A Misseriya woman stands in front of a thatched shelter in Goli, Sudan, March 2009 (Tim McKulka/UN)
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