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and here is another important article on Gender-based Violence in Darfur and how rape is used as a weapon of war; and the denial of course !!!!!
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Rape is a weapon in Darfur, but Sudan’s government doesn’t want to hear about it

Sunday 28 August 2005 23:08


By Sam Dealey / Khor Abeche

The rapes continued through the day. Kicked and beaten, their hands bound behind their backs, the women lay side by side on the dusty earth beneath Sudan’s scorching sun. Nine in all, they were spoils of war, taken last April from their village of Khor Abeche in a dawn raid by the Arab militiamen known as Janjaweed, who had descended on camels and horses and in pickups mounted with machine guns. The women’s village, on the cusp of rebel and government redoubts in South Darfur, was burned and looted; their husbands and fathers and brothers were shot when they protested.

At the Janjaweed camp, the men took turns smothering the women’s faces in their long, colorful shawls. The victims were told they were the rebels’ whores and daughters, they recounted to TIME, and when they cried out, they were threatened with death. As the blistering day gave way to a chill dusk, the women lay there, denied food and water, some sobbing and others asleep from exhaustion. With the morning came the rebels’ counterattack. The Janjaweed fled, leaving the women behind.

Nearly 2 1/2 years since fighting erupted between African rebels and government-backed Arab militias in Sudan’s western Darfur region, the horror continues. When TIME published a cover story last October on the unfolding genocide against Darfur’s non-Arab Muslims, some 50,000 had died and 1.4 million had been forced from their homes. Since then, the war has claimed tens of thousands more; 2.4 million are now displaced.

Large-scale attacks on villages like Khor Abeche are increasingly rare, and Darfur’s combatants seem mostly resigned to an uneasy stalemate. Humanitarian access has improved and fewer people are dying, but in the vast swaths of land outside the control of either the government or the rebels, lawlessness prevails. Attacks on trucks and aid convoys make roads too dangerous to travel, and the scared and hungry arrive at swollen relief camps daily. Even then, their safety is not ensured. At Kalma, Darfur’s largest camp, refugees complain of government harassment, and women who venture beyond in search of firewood and fodder are often raped.

Rape is a potent symbol of the government’s failure to ensure security. After a March report by Doctors Without Borders documented 500 rapes over a four-month period, senior aid workers were arrested for publishing false reports, undermining state security and spying. The charges were eventually dropped, but the government still denies the assertion. In June, Western diplomats and U.N. representatives gathered with aid workers in Kalma to discuss the government’s failure to halt the rapes. Even as Sudanese officials contested claims of sexual violence, a slip of paper was handed to an aid worker. Another woman had been raped.

With Khartoum unable or unwilling to provide security, the African Union hopes to increase its peacekeeping force from 2,700 to 7,700 by September. But even that may not be enough to tame an area the size of Texas. Five turbulent rounds of peace talks have made little headway, and frustration and mistrust run high.

The hope is that Sudan’s new coalition government, forged in July by the peace deal that ended a separate, 21-year civil war in the south, will succeed where the regime could not. But that prospect took a blow when rebel leader John Garang, the inspiration for Sudan’s disaffected, died in a helicopter crash just three weeks after becoming Vice President.

Time is running short. Unrest is growing among Sudan’s other marginalized groups, many of which are armed and may not wait for the new government to address their concerns. "How many armies and militias do we have in this country?" asks Hassan al-Turabi, the former speaker of the parliament who fell out with the regime he helped build. "Ten, and even 20 and 30. We are running the risk of disintegration."

For now Khor Abeche, like Darfur itself, lies somewhere between peace and disintegration. It was a ghost town two months ago, but villagers are returning under African Union protection. On a recent day, newly thatched huts stood beside the charred remains of others. As children played among spent gun cartridges in the village square, aid workers from World Vision distributed food under the stripped limbs of a baobab tree. "I feel safe now, but what is safe?" asks Amna, one of the nine raped in April. "I have felt safe before." It’s an insecurity that will not easily go away. Several of the women are now pregnant, and their children will be lifelong reminders of Darfur’s hatreds.

Time/U.S. Edition

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الأخت الغالية هالة الأحمدية

نعم الحكومة لا تريد ان تسمع
اليك هذا اللنك عن الشهادات


مليشيات الجنجويد،، إذلال وإغتصاب علني ،، بدعم حكومي،، شهادات !!

الأخت الغالية هالة الأحمدية

نعم الحكومة لا تريد ان تسمع
اليك هذا اللنك عن الشهادات


مليشيات الجنجويد،، إذلال وإغتصاب علني ،، بدعم حكومي،، شهادات !!

Quote: Rape is a potent symbol of the government’s failure to ensure security. After a March report by Doctors Without Borders documented 500 rapes over a four-month period, senior aid workers were arrested for publishing false reports, undermining state security and spying. The charges were eventually dropped, but the government still denies the assertion. In June, Western diplomats and U.N. representatives gathered with aid workers in Kalma to discuss the government’s failure to halt the rapes. Even as Sudanese officials contested claims of sexual violence, a slip of paper was handed to an aid worker. Another woman had been raped.

Dear Ahmed Haneen

Many thanks for the useful link

raping of Darfurian women hasn't stopped; the pressure must be on

my regards to you

الأخت العزيزة هالة الأحمدي
لك التحية و الأحترام

Quote: With the morning came the rebels’ counterattack. The Janjaweed fled, leaving the women behind

ترجمة:
مع الصبح جاء الهجوم المضاد للمتمردين . و هرب الجنجويد تاركين خلفهم النساء .
أنتهت الترجمة.

كالعادة ... و كالحكومة التي تساندهم .... مجرمون و جبناء.

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Indeed, GoS used and still uses rape to degrade, disintegrade and subjugate the very being of Darfur woman as well as to destroy the social fabric of Darfur

I appreciate very much sending the URL link to this article

Regards
Mohamed Elgadi
Darfur Alert Coalition

اختي د.هالة الاحمدي ..
لك التحية والتقدير ...

ومعأ ..حتي تتحقق العدالة .. والقصاص من المجرمين والقتلة ...

مساء الخير بتوقيتنا هنا
او بتوقيت الفجيعة

ساعود بالتعليق

Dear

Mohamed Sulieman

Shao Darsheed

Ahmed Mohamedain

Mohamed Elgadi

Mohamdain Mohamed Ishaq


many thanks for being here; solidarity and endeavour will never stop – no matter what - until all women of Darfur are safe; and perpetrators are brought to justice

I do apologise for not responding individually; problem of time and other issues

will be back

Quote: مساء الخير بتوقيتنا هنا او بتوقيت الفجيعة

and a very good evening to you Aarif

Quote: ساعود بالتعليق

we will be waiting

my regards to you: few days and I will be back

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!difficult even to comments, thanks Hala up!
Sawsan

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شكرا العزيزة هالة