Barbara Platt-Usher
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Services are scarce, travelling any distance is not secure, and there's a social stigma to admitting that you've been raped, and it is very widespread.
So the MSF reported or documented rapes that were carried out in hot conflict zones in northern Darfur, especially during the fall of the city of Al-Fasher.
Very disturbing accounts of very violent rape, very often gang rape, ethnic targeting, Arab fighters targeting non-Arab communities.
But they also documented rapes carried out regularly in South Darfur, which is not on the front line.
And there the report said rape had just become part of everyday life.
Women were raped on their way to the market.
They were raped working in the field.
Again, often gang rapes.
And this, they said, MSF said, is rooted in previous decades of conflict, gender discrimination and, frankly, complete impunity.
Well, it has to be said that all of the warring parties in Sudan are accused of sexual violence.
That includes the regular army and its allies, as well as the RSF.
But Darfur is the stronghold of the rapid support forces, and the vast majority of survivors, sexual violence survivors, identified the perpetrators as RSF fighters.
The MSF report did say there was a significant number of victims under the age of 18 in South Darfur, for example, including 41 under the age of 5.
Although in South Darfur, it was not just armed men there, which were there.
You also had criminal gangs and sometimes intimate partners.
But the RSF leadership has admitted that individual violations were committed during the takeover of al-Fasher in particular.
It says these are being investigated and the scale of atrocities it insists was exaggerated.
Yes, both of those things, desperate and it feels like there's no sign of ending.
So what MSF says is there has to be accountability.
It says that the parties that have influence with the fighters should press them to protect civilians.
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