Monday, May 29, 2006
Rape in Ugandan Camps

A judge in northern Uganda has ordered the army to pay two girls who say they were raped by soldiers in an internally displaced persons' camp. The decision spotlights rights workers' charges of rampant rapes in these camps:

"...The girls said the two soldiers threatened to shoot them and then took turns raping them as their mother looked helplessly on.

The eldest sister, who was 18 at the time, later tested negative for the HIV virus. But her sister tested positive. She was 13."

...Read the full story on Women's eNews



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