023 2023 Reuters Zohra Bensemra Nusra And Khadija Share The Bond Of Being Cousins Living In Same Small Town West Darfur Now They Sharea Darker Both Survivors Sexual Violence Conflict Sudan Human Rights Watch Researchers Spoke With Eastern Chad News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Click to expand Image Rainbow is seen over makeshift shelters of people who fled the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, during a sunset in Adre, Chad, July 27, 2023. 2023 REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra Nusra and Khadija share the bond of being cousins and of living in the same small town in West Darfur. Now they share a darker bond: both survivors of sexual violence in the conflict in Sudan. Human Rights Watch researchers spoke with the cousins in eastern Chad, while documenting abuses against dozens of survivors of atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militia in Sudan's West Darfur town of El Geneina. NusraandKhadija, both in their twenties, told us that they were raped - three weeks apart - when RSF fighters and Arab militiamen searched house-to-house for men, boys, and weapons in the predominantly ethnic Massalit neighborhoods of El Geneina.We are using pseudonyms to protect their identities. While Human Rights Watch and other organizations have re ....

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