Janjaweed militiamen gang-rape 3 Darfur women: IDP spokesman
August 20, 2008 (KHARTOUM) – Three Darfuri women were gang-raped after they left their camps to gather firewood, a spokesperson for Darfur displaced said today.
Abu-Sharati said that the women were intercepted by a group of Janjaweed militiamen who were present in the area of Wadi Bargo in South Darfur.
He listed the names of the victims as Tayba Adam Al-Tahir 15 years old; Aicha Youssef 17 years old; Kaltouma Salih 55 years old.
“The three women are at the Kass hospital in South Darfur in case anyone has doubts” he added.
The Janjaweed is a heavily armed militia blamed for waging a campaign of rape, killing and pillage in Darfur.
Rights groups and Western governments say that Khartoum used the Janjaweed as a proxy militia against Darfur rebels and civilians suspected of rebel sympathies. However the government denies this and says that the Janjaweed are outlaws.
Abu-Sharati said that an Egyptian officer with the United Nations – African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) was notified of the incident “but took no action”.
“We also informed the UN officer in charge of humanitarian aid to be our witness. There can be no peace in Darfur without giving us security” he said.
In mid-July the ICC’s prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo submitted to the judges of Pre-Trial Chamber I an application for an arrest warrant against Sudanese president Omar Hassan Al-Bashir.
Ocampo filed 10 charges against Al-Bashir: three counts of genocide, five of crimes against humanity and two of murder against the African tribes of Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa.
Ocampo alleged that rape in Darfur “has been committed systematically and continuously for 5 years”.
“Rape is an integral part of the pattern of destruction that the Government of the Sudan is inflicting upon the target groups in Darfur” the prosecutor stated in the summary of his application submitted to the judges.
In a separate incident Abu-Sharati said that Sudanese security officers arrested families of the IDP’s who came to visit them.
“Last week they took away around 73 people. They stopped cars at checkpoints leading to Kalma and Abu-Shouk camps and ask passengers to get out. They picked a number of them and took them to an unknown location” Abu-Sharati said.
“Their families know nothing about them. The Sudanese authorities must release them and guarantee their legal rights” he added.
UN experts estimate some 300,000 people have died and 2.5 million driven from their homes. Sudan blames the Western media for exaggerating the conflict and puts the death toll at 10,000.
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John Lemi Stephen
Janjaweed militiamen gang-rape 3 Darfur women: IDP spokesman
The Jangaweed can still go on rapping girls and the old women, to them it is normal to rape any not from their cult. They like their leaders can tell any lie because lying is not a sin. Their masters are fully behind them, what they may not know or chose to ignore is that their days are counted and the time is coming it is almost at hand when they shall have no where to hide even their giants in Arabia will never help them. They should not forget that they are living in a desert and has made all their neighbours their enemies. These oppressed and persecuted neighbours are gainning the upper a thing that this bloody vampires must know. Their leaders and many others will end up in ICC courts and prison should they ever escape being hang; they should have learnt the lesson from Iraq and Sadam whom they looked at as their hero and would not be defeated as they sung it but where is Sadam now? Many changes will take place in Sudan in favour of the oppressed and all the marginalized communities; if these cruel Arabs are wise they should start behaving themselves such that they would have a space to live in peace years after, or else they are doom and cursed. You will never have that chance again to kill, rape, plunder and devastate as your brutal parents did in the name of religion. Judgement is coming watch out you bloody Jangaweed and your masters!!!!!!!