Geneva / Khartoum — According to an investigation carried out by the Special Prosecutor for Crimes in Darfur, the "alleged mass rape" in Tabit, North Darfur, end October last year, "never took place".
Esameldin Abdelgader, the Sudanese Undersecretary of Justice, explained in his briefing of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week on the outcome of the inquiry, that women of 88 families in Tabit were questioned. They all denied to having been raped. Only four women said they had been sexually assaulted, but this happened in other parts of the region.
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