World News @lemmy.world Lee Duna @lemmy.nz 11 mo. ago

Sudanese women describe being gang-raped in attacks by Arab forces

www.reuters.com Sudanese women describe being gang-raped in attacks by Arab forces

Rape is widespread amid the war in Sudan. Young women from the ethnic-African Masalit tribe describe being sexually assaulted by RSF and Arab militia forces.

9 comments

Emir Massar Aseel, an Arab tribal leader in El Geneina, dismissed the rape allegations as “empty lies.” Aseel is a leader of the Rizeigat – one of the largest Arab tribes in West Darfur and the group from which many RSF leaders hail. Arab tribal traditions prohibit sexual assault and bar Arabs from marrying Masalit, Aseel said in a phone interview, and thus his people couldn’t have committed mass rape.

“If I can’t bring myself to marry” a Masalit woman, Aseel said, “why would I go and take her by force?”

If not for the horrific context, the sheer idiocy of the above comment would be truly hilarious.
- Yeah, crazy how people on both sides of the spectrum feel they can cast judgement without evidence or an investigation.
  
  Nice victim-blaming, bro. The fuck is wrong with you?
Disgusting.
- Islam, the most peaceful religion 🥰🥰🥰
  
  I have to ask. Besides being an edgy comment that borders on (if not flatout) maligning Muslims- what are you trying to accomplish with it? Or am I putting too much weight on a throwaway troll commeny?
  
  You do realize many of the women raped were probably Muslim too? Its not religion that brought that rather then racism... people keep failing to understand this. Or rather it makes you feel justified in your own hatred rather then reading the actual fucking article.

You've viewed 9 comments.