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CNN Interview With Darfur Soldier Describes Atrocities

By Corey Rayburnyung

CNN has an interesting and disturbing interview with a former Sudanese solider who describes being ordered to rape and kill children. Rape continues to be an ugly weapon of war in Sudan. From CNN:Last year in Darfur aid workers told me children as young as five were being raped in the huge displacement camps that are home to several million Darfuris. In some camps, they told me, rape had become so common that as many as 20 babies a month born from rape were being abandoned.As I sat inches from Adam --not his real name -- I feared the revulsion I knew I would feel at my own questions as I asked about rape and his involvement. I have interviewed rape survivors in Darfur. I have two daughters. I am a human being with a conscience. It would be hard to listen to his replies...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).