Militiamen gang-rape three women in North Darfur

18/12/2013 20:46

Militiamen subjected three women from the Shangil Tobaya camp, North Darfur, to a gang-rape ordeal for more than seven hours on Wednesday morning. Residents of the Shangil Tobaya camp for the displaced told Radio Dabanga that in the early morning hours five women went to collect firewood southwest of the camp. At about 15km from the camp, in the area of Kutur Abu Hamra, militiamen on camels assaulted the women. Two of them managed to escape, but the tree others were seized at gunpoint. The men raped them alternately from 8am until 3.30pm. The women who escaped ran back to the camp. A group of camp residents hired a cart and went to help the victims of 25, 28 and 32 years old. File photo Related:Militiamen gang-rape ten in Central Darfur (16 December 2013) Three women gang-raped in West Darfur (11 December 2013) ‘Sexual violence crisis in Sudan’: rape victims speak out (8 December 2013)

Militiamen subjected three women from the Shangil Tobaya camp, North Darfur, to a gang-rape ordeal for more than seven hours on Wednesday morning.

Residents of the Shangil Tobaya camp for the displaced told Radio Dabanga that in the early morning hours five women went to collect firewood southwest of the camp. At about 15km from the camp, in the area of Kutur Abu Hamra, militiamen on camels assaulted the women. Two of them managed to escape, but the tree others were seized at gunpoint. The men raped them alternately from 8am until 3.30pm.

The women who escaped ran back to the camp. A group of camp residents hired a cart and went to help the victims of 25, 28 and 32 years old.

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Related:

Militiamen gang-rape ten in Central Darfur (16 December 2013)

Three women gang-raped in West Darfur (11 December 2013)

‘Sexual violence crisis in Sudan’: rape victims speak out (8 December 2013)