Rape is widespread amid the war in Sudan. Young women from the ethnic-African Masalit tribe describe being sexually assaulted by RSF and Arab militia forces.
Emir Massar Aseel, an Arab tribal leader in El Geneina, dismissed the rape allegations as “empty lies.” Aseel is a leader of the Rizeigat – one of the largest Arab tribes in West Darfur and the group from which many RSF leaders hail. Arab tribal traditions prohibit sexual assault and bar Arabs from marrying Masalit, Aseel said in a phone interview, and thus his people couldn’t have committed mass rape.
“If I can’t bring myself to marry” a Masalit woman, Aseel said, “why would I go and take her by force?”
If not for the horrific context, the sheer idiocy of the above comment would be truly hilarious.
If not for the horrific context, the sheer idiocy of the above comment would be truly hilarious.
Yeah, crazy how people on both sides of the spectrum feel they can cast judgement without evidence or an investigation.
Nice victim-blaming, bro. The fuck is wrong with you?
What do you mean?