Sudanese militias to rape on behalf of the transitional Council, both women and men. Sexualised violence as a means of power is not a unique case in the Arab world and is used in a targeted manner.
For rape: the militia “Rapid Support Forces” (archive image)
After the eviction of a protest camp of the Opposition in front of the headquarters of the Sudanese military reports of Sudanese women, stories of sexual abuse became more frequent. Rape should have taken place on the road. 100 people were killed. This violence seems to have System. The perpetrators to be members of a paramilitary unit, the “Rapid Support Forces” (RSF),. They consist of the notorious Janjaweed militias, which are known to fight on behalf of the army, insurgent ethnic groups. The eye witness Nahid Jabrallah language in the DW-Interview of women who are raped, whose bodies have been recovered from the Nile.
Female Icon
Since mid-December, hundreds of thousands of Sudanese in many parts of the country on the roads. The student Alaa Salah the peaceful protest movement seems to have a symbolic figure found: the image of the white-clad woman with Golden earrings and a in the air stretched index finger went around the world. The Sudanese woman since the beginning of the protest present. Salah embodies the resistance against the repressive Regime and at the same time, the courage to change.
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But now you want to stop the women, says Mayada Habib from the centre for women’s studies in France: “The Use of rape as a weapon of war against women is widespread in the Arab world since the year 2011. Rapes take place in a systematic way. In Syria around 8000 women have been detained by the Assad Regime, tortured and abused.”
May the prominent role of the Sudanese woman brought in the protest movement that led to the resignation of long-time ruler Omar Al-Bashir, “the military Council to take revenge on the women,” explains Habib. The rape wave of the RSF is to intimidate activists and protesters in General, and relates not only to women, so the woman researcher.
“A Clear Message”
The military Transitional Council am aware of the sexualised violence against the population. “It is a clear message to the Opposition that the military Council is sparing no means to put a stop to the Sudanese Revolution to an end,” says Habib.
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Scientist Habib mentioned in the interview-the special session of the UN security Council on the crisis in the Sudan. Eight EU members of the Council condemned the violence of the security forces against civilians. However, a joint Declaration of all the members of it were not. Among other things, this is due to the resistance of China, Russia and Kuwait. “The attempt to draw Sudan’s military Council for its human rights violations to account, has failed hereby,” says Habib.
Syria, Libya and now Sudan
Numerous human rights organizations published reports on the targeted use of sexual abuse as a means of deterrence in the Arab world. In Libya, for example, soldiers of the former Libyan ruler Muammar al-Gaddafi should be with massive sexual violence against women, the procedure. A doctor reported, according to the mirror Online of about a hundred Victims alone in the city of Benghazi. Later, militias should have used in the Libyan civil war, systematic rape.
Sexual violence is an extremely sensitive matter especially in the Arab region, explains Habib. They fear that these incidents cause in the Sudan, that this peaceful movement ends in a bloody conflict where civilians are arming. This fear share many Sudanese activists in the social networks. The military Council would intend a proliferation of weapons on the streets of the Sudan by the RSF, in order to discredit the protesters, is the Tenor. Also worldwide observers fear that the peaceful movement of the civilians developed into an armed conflict between the population and the Sudan military.