The stories coming out of Sudan just get worse and worse. Here a woman and teenage girl who were raped and abducted by soldiers in Western Darfur claim that the Sudanese army organised airlifts of sex slaves to serve the government soldiers in Khartoum (via Dhimmi Watch):
One victim, Bokur Hamis, 21, who eventually escaped and is now in hiding in Soba, on the outskirts of Khartoum, claimed that she was seized from Jartage, her home village, last year. "Soldiers attacked with heavy guns," she said."Most of the men in the village were unarmed, and they were killed."
The women headed to a nearby lake and tried to hide under the water but were caught.
"Each of us was raped by between three and six men," said Bokur. "One woman refused to have sex with them, so they split her head into pieces with an axe in front of us."
The soldiers tried to bundle her into a truck, she said. "I refused, so one of them hit me with a cane, broke my rib, then threw me in. They took 43 of us in Land Cruisers and drove for two days without food or water."
She looked down at the ground and spoke more slowly. "In the middle of the night we reached a place with lights and they put us directly on a huge aeroplane. I thought they'd kill me.
There were girls from other villages, I knew about 10." On the plane, as the escorting soldiers gloated at the number of girls they had taken, their captives sat in fearful silence.
"When we arrived at a base in Khartoum, the soldiers were each given money," Bokur said.
A commander inspected the women, she said.
"Each woman was given to a soldier, now I don't know where any of them are. I was given to an Arab soldier, taken to his house and locked inside. Every night he used me like a wife. For two months I did not see the outside. [...]
The Sudanese government adamantly denied the women's claims, saying they were feeding anti-Arab propaganda.
"These things simply do not happen," one senior Sudanese diplomat said. "Such stories are a conspiracy of the West to discredit the government of Sudan."
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