The Sudanese NGO and national organizations fear that more than 4,000 women have been raped since the outbreak of the conflict
July 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Sudan’s combat forces have been raping children up to 12 years of age since the beginning of the clashes between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to Save the Children and national humanitarian organizations.
Save the Children warns that sexual violence in the African country is “runaway” amid the chaos of the fighting. According to the latest estimates by the Unit for the Fight against Violence against Women and Children, a Sudanese national body, as of July 1 it has only been able to verify 88 cases of rape, more than half in the capital, Khartoum.
However, and as it already advanced last month, the body understands that the figures it is collecting represent approximately only 2 percent of the total, which would mean that a total of approximately 4,400 women would have been subjected to sexual abuse in eleven weeks of violence.
Save the Children denounces gang rapes for days on young Sudanese women, who have been specifically targeted by their aggressors because of their ethnicity and gender. Around four million women and girls in Sudan are at risk right now.
“We are finding frequent cases of women affected by sexual violence,” warns Sara Abdelrazig, head of Save the Children for North Kordofan, where there are mobile service points for survivors, children in particular, who present “serious cases of trauma” who need specialized care.
“Sexual violence continues to be a weapon of terror and the figures we are considering are just the tip of the iceberg,” adds the director of Save the Children for the African country, Arif Noor.
