Ministry of Foreign Affairs: RSF Militia crimes exceed those of ISIS and Boko Haram

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) affirmed that official bodies, human rights organizations and specialists documented 500 cases of rape limited to “survivors” from areas invaded by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia.
The ministry said, in a statement it issued, that there are other numbers of cases that are not monitored due to inability to file suits about them, or because the victims are still in areas controlled by the militia. But it is estimated that there are several hundred abducted and held hostage, sexually enslaved and forced domestic workers, with reports of girls being smuggled out of their families’ areas and outside Sudan for trafficking.

The ministry said on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, that the RSF militia uses “rape as a weapon” in war to force citizens to evacuate their villages and homes to settle its mercenaries, and kills males from those groups and rapes women and girls for the purpose of giving birth to children who can be affiliated with the tribes to which the militia members belong.

MFA expressed its surprise at the lack of an international response commensurate with the magnitude of these atrocities, which exceed those committed by ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army against women.