Facts ’Destination Mission: Rapid Support Insights forced Girls to Marriage Crew – The Seventh Day

In a shocking report, the United Nations Mission of Facts in Sudan revealed that the militia for rapid support for families to marry its elements of girls who are not more than 12 years old under extreme coercion.

The fact -finding mission said, in a statement that it had received very disturbing reports, related to members of the rapid support forces to marry, forcibly girls who are not more than 12 years old, according to Sudan Tribune.

The fact -finding mission confirmed that these actions are committed under extreme coercion, noting that the elements of rapid support are holding girls at gunpoint, and that the parents are forced to marry their daughters to avoid the alternative fate of rape, and stressed that some of these actions were accompanied by violence that led to deaths.
She added: “These marriages destroy the lives of women and girls and cause a vicious circle of poverty, abuse and deprivation of basic rights such as education and personal independence.”

October 2023, the United Nations Human Rights Council formed a fact mission to investigate the situation in Sudan, whose mandate includes investigating violations and crimes committed in the context of the war and identifying those responsible for it.

The mission reported that it had documented a huge number of sexual assault, including children who are not more than 7 years old, stressing that sexual violence is widespread and used as a war weapon.

The fact -finding mission quoted sexual violence to the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias.

The mission called for an end to the use of sexual violence, including children’s marriage and forced marriage, investigating these crimes and prosecuting those who committed it from soldiers and leaders, in addition to providing protection and victims obtaining support. The mission renewed the recommendation of the expansion of the International Criminal Court to include all Sudan and the establishment of a separate international judicial mechanism that works with the criminal court, and the victims of rape and sexual violence take extremist measures To deal with the situation, it includes escaping from families and suicide due to the association of this type of crime with honor and a sense of shame and inferiority in local communities.

The fact -finding mission revealed that economic losses due to the conflict led to the marginalization of women and their deprivation of financial independence and livelihoods.

She continued: “The destruction of markets, looting of business and the destruction of agricultural areas has caused an countless number of women from their basic sources of income and pushed them to more poverty, and their limited access to resources and services are exposed to exploitation and sexual assault.”

The Rapid Support Forces deliberately destroyed the markets in the conflict areas in Khartoum and Darfur, while the shops, companies and institutions looted in the areas they controlled.

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