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Sudan: rape & suicide

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NitroNine · 31/10/2024 09:11

If the title was insufficient warning, the news coverage gives some detail of the fact women in Sudan who have been raped are subsequently dying by suicide - with women who anticipate being raped by the RSF increasing the death toll.

A UN Report from earlier this year was titled Rape, Murder & Hunger - & if you’re wondering about the high suicide rate, being a rape victim attaches lifelong stigma in Sudan.

(Search tells me there was some discussion of Sudan on the April thread about the UN’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict’s briefing).

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Ereshkigalangcleg · 31/10/2024 10:18

I’m still shocked and amazed there isn’t more coverage about this on mainstream media. Women’s deaths in general are so routine to be almost wallpaper, but this is a pure horror on another level

I agree. Horrific.

Grammarnut · 31/10/2024 10:15

The horror unfolding in Sudan's civil war appears to go unnoticed. Months ago I saw pictures of a little girl watching other children playing. She could not join in because she had lost both her feet. No mention of this anywhere, just a 'good' photo.
The Yemen also gets short shrift and is a similar horror story for women. The horrific rapes in Israel appear to have been dismissed by many, too, who advocate that the oppressed (Hamas in this case) are given a free pass to commit atrocities, so it doesn't matter that 'oppressor' women were gang-raped.
Meanwhile, had anyone noticed that Oct 7th was the anniversary of the battle of Lepanto, in 1571? Europe effectively beat the Ottoman Empire, which had invaded as far as Vienna and held Greece until the mid-nineteenth century. Sort of thing Hamas would hold a grudge about, I think - and suggests that the Oct 7th attack was not just aimed at Israel but against Europe.

Jamazon1 · 31/10/2024 09:15

I’m still shocked and amazed there isn’t more coverage about this on mainstream media. Women’s deaths in general are so routine to be almost wallpaper, but this is a pure horror on another level

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