Central Darfur camps saw 17 rape cases in Ramadan: displaced

16/08/2013 23:59

Sheikhs from Nertiti camps in Central Darfur handed over a report to the Unamid police on Friday stating that during Ramadan they counted 17 cases of rape in the area.During the meeting with Unamid, sheikhs told Radio Dabanga they discussed the issue of rapes and violence against women carried out by pro-government militias during the holy month of Ramadan, stressing such abuses are still on-going.The sheikhs demanded Unamid to protect the displaced, and especially the women. Victims, they said, come mostly from the Nertiti camps of North, South, and El Salam.“Unamid police told us that their mission is only to write reports on these events and hand them over to international bodies and institutions,” a sheikh disclosed, adding the Mission said: “Catching perpetrators and brining them to court is the responsibility of the government not ours.”File photoRelated: Rape, robbery and rains plague Nertiti displaced in Central Darfur (18 July 2013)

Sheikhs from Nertiti camps in Central Darfur handed over a report to the Unamid police on Friday stating that during Ramadan they counted 17 cases of rape in the area.

During the meeting with Unamid, sheikhs told Radio Dabanga they discussed the issue of rapes and violence against women carried out by pro-government militias during the holy month of Ramadan, stressing such abuses are still on-going.

The sheikhs demanded Unamid to protect the displaced, and especially the women. Victims, they said, come mostly from the Nertiti camps of North, South, and El Salam.

“Unamid police told us that their mission is only to write reports on these events and hand them over to international bodies and institutions,” a sheikh disclosed, adding the Mission said: “Catching perpetrators and brining them to court is the responsibility of the government not ours.”

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Related: Rape, robbery and rains plague Nertiti displaced in Central Darfur (18 July 2013)