Abstract
The Sudanese soldiers and the Janjawid invaded her village. When she tried to escape, they gang-raped her. At that time, she was eight months pregnant and described giving birth to a dead baby afterward and being very sick. She could not make it with her group to the border to flee to Chad so she had to walk alone. Once she got to Chad, she was raped by a Chadian soldier outside of the camp and became pregnant. Afterwards, her husband divorced her, and she now lives with the stigma of being a rape victim. She has been expelled from her family and has a child who is a product of this rape (Sharp 2009).
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Miller, Liz
(2011)
"The Irony of Refuge: Gender-Based Violence Against Female Refugees in Africa,"
Human Rights & Human Welfare: Vol. 11:
Iss.
1, Article 20.
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https://digitalcommons.du.edu/hrhw/vol11/iss1/20
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