Twice a week, a group of women gather together in a nondescript house in Ardamata, on the outskirts of Geneina in Sudan’s West Darfur state, to tell their stories to each other, cry, and drink coffee.
The women, who work or used to work in education, are all survivors of an ethnically targeted campaign of rape and sexual abuse carried out by fighters from Arab militias backed by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group on 5 November, after the fall of the army garrison in Ardamata.
Most of the rape campaign’s victims were from the Masalit community, a darker-skinned ethnic African tribe that made up a majority in Geneina before they were largely driven out during fighting that began in April last year.
Given that she is Arab Sudanese she will be exploring this bit of oppression from her own hinterland, yes? Rather than just the usual chuntering on about how Jews and Whitey can just be so awful, y’know?
She won’t because she understands the Friend/ Enemy distinction in politics.
’…to tell their stories to each other, cry, and drink coffee.’
Well, nice to see they are taking positive action.
The women, who work or used to work in education, are all survivors of an ethnically targeted campaign of rape and sexual abuse carried out by fighters from Arab militias
I’m sure Malik will be just as sympathetic to them as she is to British women who are survivors of an ethnically targeted campaign of rape and sexual abuse carried out by groups of Islamic men.
Twice a week, a group of women gather together in a nondescript house in Ardamata, on the outskirts of Geneina in Sudan’s West Darfur state, to tell their stories to each other, cry, and drink coffee.
Does this sound as highly unlikely to you as it does to me? Islington maybe.
Oh & she won’t. (The Malik) She’d be worried about being accused of bias. Her opinions of anywhere else are of course, perfectly even handed.
Isn’t rape a colonialist thing, introduced by white settlers to divide and rule the erstwhile peaceful and egalitarian inhabitants of the Happy Continent?
Steve – true…
Sam Vara – is it really rape if the perps aren’t white?
I read a Sudanese Mystery novel once, about a mysterious murder connected to the Sudanese practice of female genital mutilation.
It was real cloaca and dagger stuff.