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Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have committed widespread acts of sexual violence, say HRW

A view of a street in the city of Omdurman damaged in the year-long civil war in Sudan, April 7, 2024.in the capital Khartoum, including gang rape and forced marriages, in its war with the armed forces, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

It cited accounts of the RSF holding women and girls in conditions that could amount to sexual slavery, and assaulting them in front of their families.has asked the RSF and the army for comment. Both sides have previously denied responsibility for abuses during the war, with the RSF saying it would take preventative measures against human rights violations.

“They do not raid for just looting, they target specific houses because the women are there, they enter and ask for the women and girls in the house,” the midwife said. The conflict has stirred up ethnically motivated killings in the western region of Darfur, where the RSF and allied militias are accused of leading a campaign of attacks including sexual assaults against the Masalit ethnic group.

 

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