Woman cite this as Sex Slave in "A Rape Camp" in South Sudan


A woman abducted soldiers and taken to a military camp. There, she was tied up and raped repeatedly for two months.
Another woman was abducted together with his brother who was 15 years old, and raped every night for five nights. A third woman was taken to the woods with her daughter who was 12 years old. There, both raped.
Abduction of women and young girls were then used as sex slaves-some of them detained indefinitely-tied together with hundreds of others in "camps rape" secret, is a new aspect that is worrying from a conflict that has lasted for 21 months in Sudan South, the war crimes and violations of human rights already known.
The girls Chibok in Nigeria, Boko Haram abducted in April 2014, and the Yazidi women in Iraq are used as sex slaves by the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS, already known to the world. However, the fate of perhaps thousands-South Sudanese woman who was kidnapped and repeatedly been the victim of a brutal rape and to work in slave-like conditions still are not revealed to the surface until now.
Dozens of interviews conducted by the AFP news agency in the north of the country reveal a systematic pattern of abduction and rape committed government troops and allied militias during an offensive took place recently.
The investigation focused on an attack by government forces. However, both sides have done genocide, recruit and murder children, as well as widespread rape, as well as torture and displacement of people in order to "clean" the area of ​​their enemies.
Abduction and systematic rape
Nyabena, a 30-year-old mother, was arrested when troops attacked his village in the district of Rubkona in April. Adult men and boys were shot dead. The houses were looted and burned to the ground. Women and girls were arrested. Nyabena were among 40 people taken from two neighboring villages. He was in tears when telling stories about what happened when she was separated from her five children.
They were taken to Mayom County. Nyabena detained in Kotong, territory controlled by Major General Matthew Puljang, Bul Nuer tribe militia commander allied with the South Sudan army, the SPLA, which has been fighting the rebels since December 2013.
From April to July this year, SPLA and militia Puljang has conducted attacks by UN investigators described as a "scorched earth policy" in their report in August.
Flood fighting and have limited access to most areas of South Sudan. It made the aid workers call the southern part of the country as "information black hole".
A human rights investigator said, "Nobody knows what happened in Mayom County," where many women were abducted. A military expert estimated that "thousands of women" kidnapped during the attack.
"In all the districts in the southern part of South Sudan is the same. The woman who is lucky escape. Those who do not (escaped) will be raped and kidnapped or killed," said the human rights investigator. "The abduction of women seems to be systematic. It could be a day, or longer, or forever."
Those who escaped to tell their story in a calm voice, without emotion (as already numb). Nightmare override some of them. Sometimes, they think that he is still in captivity.
After being kidnapped, Nyabena put to work during the day. Duties include carrying looted goods and food, collect water, and a garden hoe. He always supervised during the day. At night, he tied up with the other women.
"When one of the soldiers wanted to have sex, he will come, release us, and took us away. When they finished, they would take us back and bind us again," he said, flexing his elbows behind his back to show how he tied. He said, raped by four men in one night is common.
Women who refuse to work or fight when raped will surely disappear. "In the morning, we find out they had lost," he said. Of the 40 people who arrived with him in April, 10 people lost in this way.
The youngest victim was 12 years old
Nyamai, a 38-year-old mother who has five children, was taken from his village in the district of Koch. He always supervised and often tied. A total of 10 soldiers will be lining up at night in order to get their turn to rape her. "Please, one person related to me, not all," he said. In reply, he was beaten with a stick.
In another case, three of the daughter of someone named Nyatuach unmarried and still teenagers when kidnapped last May in an attack on their village in the district of Rubkona. Two daughters are still missing, but the 17-year-old son managed to escape along with three nephews.
They returned in the condition was "very sick, very thin". "Their bodies are weak, and they secrete fluid that comes from so many men who have sex with them," said Nyatuach. He referred to the common symptoms of a fistula, a condition urinate involuntarily because there is damage in the wall between the vagina and bladder or rectum, which can be caused by a violent rape.
Several other women were raped repeatedly until they are eventually released or killed because it was bleeding and could not anymore.
"When the girls were damaged, they will throw it away," said Nyatuach.
Rebecca, other women, to meet again with the 12-year-old daughter the day after their villages were attacked Koch district. "When they took me, people took advantage of me," the girl said to her mother. Rebecca boil water and wash her with a hot cloth.
"We can not do anything," he told his daughter. "That's the situation."

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