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Multiple Gender Dimension as:
Chapter 3. Women: The Ever-Present
Danger of Rape
Sudan - Displaced in Darfur:
A Generation of Anger
"Women who leave camps for
internally displaced persons, to collect wood or go to market, are at risk of
violent attack. Many have been raped."
"It was in May last summer
(2007) when we left the camp. We were five girls, all friends about 13-16, to
collect firewood...........
...Three men came, not in uniform,
and came straight to us. ....I shouted to the rest of the girls to escape. When
we started to run, we heard a gunshot and they shouted: 'Stop or we will shoot
you all.' ....
We whispered to each other to run in
different directions. When we started running, another bullet was fired; and in
panic I tripped over a rock and fell down. Three of the girls succeeded in
escaping. A man came to me directly and said that I talked too much and that
I told the rest to run.....He slapped me on the right cheek and I again
fell. ..One of the other men said, 'Don't hit the slave (khadim) or your
hands will never be cleaned from her dirt.' The man started pulling away my
cloth while I was on the ground. I pushed him away, and he fell down. I stood
up and took a big stone to pound him, but one of them caught me strongly from
beyhind and brought me to the ground again. Both of them started to strip me,
then started raping me till I fell unconscious" ....
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