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11/15/04: Factual Aspect FE.1: Prostitution & Slavery; FG.1: Ethnic Cleansing

SUDAN - Young Women Rape Victims of Militia Fighters Give Birth, Experience Shame & Social Exclusion
KALMA CAMP, Sudan - She has been in the world for 18 days and
already her life is tainted. Curled naked under a blanket close to
her mother, Nashwa is too young to know shame, the emotion that
will be like a shadow to her.
The men in her community in South Darfur province say it would
have been better for Fatima Adam, 15, to have died than to have
had Nashwa, conceived out of rape, the child of an enemy fighter.


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