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Displaced women tell of latest rape

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On 22.9.2016. Juba. Displaced women tell of latest rape. UN Jebel camp, which is hosting thousands of displaced people, mostly women and children. Some women at the UNMISS camp in Jebel Kujur in Juba say they were raped by some soldiers in military uniforms over the weekend.The women say they were coming from the market on Friday when some men in uniform offered to drop them to Checkpoint. “On Friday went to Custom and Kony-konyo market to bring some food items. On our way back we were told that there was fighting at Check-point,” the unnamed rape victim narrated their ordeals to Eye radio. “We were on a Bonga bus, which was ordered to turn back. We stopped at Eye Radio junction. They told us to foot [it to the POC]. “On our way, they said they would drop us to Checkpoint. But unfortunately they took us somewhere else, in the bush; then every one of them took one of us. “They raped us; and we slept there under the trees. In the morning of Saturday, they dropped us to Checkpoint and we [entered] the UNMISS camp. They were in military uniform.”

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Sunday, September 25, 2016 - 04:45
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