ALBAWABA - Horrific stories continue to emerge from Al Fashir city in Sudan after it fell to the Rapid Support Forces on October 27.
A woman, who luckily was able to safely escape the horror, spoke about her journey to leave the northern Darfur city, which witnessed shocking mass killings of civilians following over 18 months of siege.
Amira, a Sudanese mother of four who survived the long siege of Al Fashir in western Sudan, said that she is still devastated by the things she saw on the way out of the city, from torture to gang rape of women in public.
On a journey she described as "an ordeal," from Al Fashir, the capital of North Darfur, to Tawila, a town about 70 kilometers to the west, the Sudanese woman said she witnessed "all kinds of torture," from sexual violence and beatings to starvation that lasted for hours.
"The rape was gang-raped and in public, meaning it happened in front of everyone, and no one could stop it," she mentioned, adding that it was accompanied by brutal violence and beatings.
She says she was detained in the town of Korma before the paramilitary forces released her in exchange for a ransom. "I have four children. We are five, "I paid 5 billion Sudanese pounds [equals more than $8 million]" to be freed along with my kids. She further noted that while she was held in Korma, "rape occurred even at night. You would be asleep, and someone would come and rape you. No one questioned or stopped it."
Another Sudanese journalist said, citing a survivor of the Al Fashir massacre, that more than 25 girls were subjected to gang rape.
