Sudanese Women Gang-Raped For Three Days In Attacks By Arab Forces
Sudan, a nation in Northeast Africa, is now experiencing fighting between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces. Women and children are the groups most affected by the war. Armed troops loyal to Sudan’s de facto head of state, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, have been engaged in combat with the paramilitary Rapid Support troops (RSF), led by former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, since April of this year.
The United Nations claims that sexual assault against women and girls is being used as “a tool of war” in the war-torn country of Sudan.
Sudanese war crimes against women were documented by Reuters. Arab forces have utilized gender-based violence, including sexual violence, as a form of punishment against women and girls.
Women’s life in Sudan have been impacted by the humanitarian situation. In order to draw attention to the predicament of Sudan’s forgotten women, the UN previously released a study titled “Sudan: Women and girls abducted, held ‘in slave-like conditions’ in Darfur.” According to Liz Throssell, a UN human rights spokeswoman, women are raped repeatedly.
