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Article: "I am the mother of my enemy's child".(Amnesty international campaign: Sudan)
- Article from:
- Marie Claire
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
- Author:
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In Sudan, a country ripped apart by civil war, women have become a unique kind victim. The invading Arab Janjaweed militia rape to terrorize the wives of black farmers, destroy their families, and deliberately lighten the skin of the next generation of children. And because Sudanese culture shames and blames the victims, women are suffering twice. But some are fighting back
IN A STRETCH OF searing desert, three small girls hide beneath the scrubby branches of a poisonous bush, their bloodshot eyes barely visible through a torn, stained sheet stretching above their heads. There is no grass and no proper shelter, just the purr of the wind and the terrific heat of ...