The BBC hears horrific accounts of rape from women trapped in the conflict between the army and the RSF.
Travellers described being subjected to lawlessness, looting and brutality in a conflict that the UN says has forced more than 10.5 million people to flee their homes.
But it is sexual violence that has become a defining characteristic of the protracted conflict, which started as a power struggle between the army and the RSF but has since drawn in local armed groups and fighters from neighbouring countries.
The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, has said rape is being used as “a weapon of war”.
A recent UN fact-finding mission documented several cases of rape and rape threats from members of the army, but found that large-scale sexual violence was committed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allied militias, and amounted to violations of international law.
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This headline seems way weaker than necessary BBC.
Actually, I guess that’s not the headline, it’s just the post title.