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UN Investigators Probing Sexual Slavery In Sudan Detention Facilities
On Tuesday, a fresh United Nations (UN) fact-finding by a team examining abuses in Sudan’s brutal civil war said it was investigating reports of sexual slavery in detention facilities and ethnic-based attacks on civilians.
According to them, War has raged for more than a year between the regular military under army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces led by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
The recently-established UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission had “received credible reports of many cases of sexual violence”.
chief Mohammed Chande Othman said the crimes is committed by the warring factions as Women and girls have been, and continue to be subjected to rape, gang rape, abduction and forced marriage”.
The team, he said, was looking into “reports of sexual slavery and sexualised torture in detention facilities, including against men and boys”.
