Sudan: Armed Herders Rape Four Displaced Women, Sources

10 December 2012

Deleij — Sources told Radio Dabanga that armed herders are being accused of raping four displaced women, among them two minors, in farms in the deserted village of Koska at a few kilometers from Deleij, south-east of Wadi Saleh locality in Central Darfur on Saturday, 8 December.

The victims left to the farms in the early morning with the purpose of continuing the harvest process. The victims' families reported that more than 9 armed herders entered the farms and released their cattle onto the farmlands. When the herders found the women, they threatened them with guns and allegedly raped all of them.

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