South Darfur police refuse to file rape report of 17-year-old

A 17 year-old girl was raped by a militiaman in South Darfur on Wednesday in the vicinity of her farm in Marshang locality. Eyewitnesses claim the local police refused to file a report on the rape as well as to visit the crime scene.Sources said to Radio Dabanga that a group of four girls living in the Solo camp for displaced persons were attacked by militiamen on Wednesday near their farm in Arne, three kilometres west of Manawashi. The 17-year-old was taken at gunpoint from the group and raped by one of the militiamen in a valley in the vicinity.File photo: A woman shows her sorrow while explaining the rape increase in Kassab (Albert González Farran/Unamid)

A 17 year-old girl was raped by a militiaman in South Darfur on Wednesday in the vicinity of her farm in Marshang locality. Eyewitnesses claim the local police refused to file a report on the rape as well as to visit the crime scene.

Sources said to Radio Dabanga that a group of four girls living in the Solo camp for displaced persons were attacked by militiamen on Wednesday near their farm in Arne, three kilometres west of Manawashi. The 17-year-old was taken at gunpoint from the group and raped by one of the militiamen in a valley in the vicinity.

File photo: A woman shows her sorrow while explaining the rape increase in Kassab (Albert González Farran/Unamid)