Often Overlooked WAR CRIME: Human Rights Watch Documents Mass Rapes in Darfur : The Two-Way : NPR
A sculpture in Bangladesh depicting the rape of a Bengali woman by a Pakistani soldier in 1971. source: Wiki
Sudanese army forces raped some 221 women and girls during a 36-hour period in Darfur last October, a new report from Human Rights Watch found.
“The deliberate attack on Tabit and the mass rape of the town’s women and girls is a new low in the catalog of atrocities in Darfur,” Daniel Bekele, Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said in a press release. “The Sudanese government should stop the denials and immediately give peacekeepers and international investigators access to Tabit.”
Human Rights Watch first heard of the mass rapes in a radio report. The organization spoke to residents of Tabit over the phone, because the Sudanese government limited physical access to the town.
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