RAPE IN SOMALIA

[musika man]

Throughout the Somali conflict, rape has been used as a weapon of war by all the factions to punish rival ethnic factions.

Somali women are targeted with sexual abuse when marauding clan-based militias—or moryan raiders—loot or forcibly occupy territories inhabited by members of rival clans. Women who lack the protection of powerful clan structures or who belong to particularly vulnerable groups, such as ethnic minorities, are particularly at risk. The tens of thousands of Somali women who live in displaced persons camps are also susceptible to sexual abuse.

The enormous toll of the famine and war that peaked in 1992 had Baidoa, in Bay region, as its virtual epicenter, with women and children predominant among the dead. The women who have survived, many of them displaced by the conflict and living in and around Baidoa, are vulnerable both to a renewal of the conflict and to the everyday threat of sexual abuse. Members of a Somali organization for displaced people in Baidoa described rape as a frequent threat to women in the region. In a Bay region women's association visited by Human Rights Watch in October 1993, the members estimated that about three-quarters of their approximately 500 members had been raped.31

In the Benadir region, which includes the capital Mogadishu, "the moryan rape indiscriminately."32 One woman told Human Rights Watch thatshe had witnessed a raid in August 1994, when she was in Jowhar, to the north of Mogadishu in Middle Shebelle region, in which "Abgal gunmen crossed the main road and raped numerous Galgaal women." In Kismayu, a health officer stressed that "mothers and children suffer worst in war."33

A Baidoa women's organization established a cooperative in April 1993 in order to create employment for the women in town. The program now has sixty-five women participating in training and income-generating activities. It also runs a school. Most of the members have small children, and 40 percent are widows; most survive by collecting firewood or engaging in local trading. The displaced are mostly members of the Hariin subclan of the Rahanweyne and have little protection from rape:

One woman from the organization—who is now in hospital—was looking for firewood when she was raped by sixteen men. She couldn't walk and was left for two days until she was discovered. This was in November 1994. . . She lives in BP1, one of the displaced camps in Baidoa. She is Hariin, as are most of the women in the displaced camps. Subclan fighting devastated the Hariin, especially at the hands of the Hadamo subclan of the Rahanweyne.34

The Marehan killed, looted, raped and kidnapped women. As far as I know, about sixty women were taken. I knowthem personally. They even took one of my daughters...She is nineteen years old. [She] is now in Kenya...She was forcibly married to a Marehan, a gunman.36

Testimonies about the activity of Aideed's forces in 1992 were similar. A fifty-two-year-old Rahanweyne woman from Baidoa interviewed in the Bay region during October 1993 said, "The Aideed forces came and took Baidoa from the Marehan by force...Where they found Marehan people were staying, they raped the women and killed many people." A twenty-two-year-old Elai woman from Jawarey, a village between Saco Weyne and Bardera, recalled:

I was in the market early in the morning when people started shooting both in the air and at people. It was the Aideed militia, all Hawiye. They raped many women. They looted the market stalls of money, clothes, and sugar. That is what they came for. Not grain or anything else. Then they moved through the town collecting all the animals they could find. Many more women were raped.37

A forty-year-old man from the Darod, interviewed in Gedo region during October 1993, told of an attack by the Ajuran, a Hawiye clan: "They raped many women and then killed some of them. They did not take any captives." An Ajuran woman of about the same age from Middle Juba region, interviewed in October 1993, described an attack by other Hawiye soldiers. She said, "They took about ten women to care for the animals that they stole. I have not seen any of them again. They raped nearly all the women."38

Other women of the Rahanweyne described attacks by Ogadeni militia. One, from the Leisan clan, described how women were forced to betray their husbands or face being raped: "Nine of ten women were raped. When they came to the village, they asked the women where the men, the livestock, and the grain were. If the woman didn't answer, she got raped. If she did, she had to escort the soldiers to the food or livestock or the husband."39

Members of the Bantu agricultural communities of the Juba river area described rape as routine for raiders who loot, intimidate and sometimes kill the rural population. When militia from clans seeking to take over an area raid Bantu communities, rape is endemic. "The number of rapes is so large, it is uncountable. Rapes happen during attacks, as well as against women in the fields."43 One case was cited of a person killed in 1994 for having tried to stop the rape of his wife:

Mohammed Sekondo was killed in Fagan village in Jamaame District. He was killed by Ogadenis. Abdi "Dhere" is the militia man who killed him. Abdi tried to rape Mohammed's wife, and Mohammed said "You will never rape my wife infront of me,"' so then Abdi shot him. The leader of the Ogadeni militia responsible for this is Ahmed Hanshi, a Mohammed Zubeir [an Ogadeni subclan] commander. They are trying to move Bantus off their land; they loot and tell Bantus to leave. This is only happening northwest of Gelib. The attacks are usually carried out by twenty or more men.44

http://hrw.org/about/projects/womrep/General-28.htm

[musika man]

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many here out of qawiil/tribal worship defend the atrocities of these militia leaders-warlords and they call themselves muslims. uf. somali lamagodleys r cursed by allah.

[Alchemist]

No wonder Somalia is in the situation is in, sometime i wonder if Allah will ever forgive our nation and bless it with a better future...

[QansaGabeyle]

I know you inserted marehan into that article. you replaced everywhere it said habargedir with marehan.

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[SummerRain]

[quote="QansaGabeyle"]I know you inserted marehan into that article. you replaced everywhere it said habargedir with marehan.[/quote]

[QansaGabeyle]

rape is part of habargedir culture ismahan. don't you know? even musika-man is the byproduct of a rape incident between a habargedir moryaan and shaanshi hooker in shangaani.

[SummerRain]

[quote="QansaGabeyle"]rape is part of habargedir culture ismahan. don't you know? even musika-man is the byproduct of a rape incident between a habargedir moryaan and shaanshi hooker in shangaani.[/quote]

Waad isku xaareysa ee is qabo aboowe.

[Alchemist]

[quote="QansaGabeyle"]I know you inserted marehan into that article. you replaced everywhere it said habargedir with marehan.[/quote]

Bullsh^t and you know it.. Marehan had militias just like any other clan and their moryans raped and killed innocent people... No major clan in Somalia is innocent..

[QansaGabeyle]

the marehan clan had a disciplined military while the other somali clans had starving peasant militias that were unruly and destructive.

[Alchemist]

[quote="QansaGabeyle"]the marehan clan had a disciplined military while the other somali clans had starving peasant militias that were unruly and destructive.[/quote]

Ok sxb...

[QansaGabeyle]

^ gobnasiiye.

[Phd in naago kudis]

this QansaGabeyle is acting like marehan are so holy

[Luq_Ganane]

Horta, this stupid pm'sing 24/7 Shaanshi imbicle is friggin annoying. He's always bichin about something. You nacas who raped your girls in wholesale numbers in Banadir? Was it Marehan? Also who was in Baydhabo at that time Marehan? Raxanwein allied with Caydid, and invited him to Baydhabo. Thats what they get.This was all Caydid's gang unit who did all the raping, looting xasuuq etc.. SNF was a principled, sophisticated Militairy unit that were operating on civilized war norms. Go to Afgoi, Marka, Mogadishu and I could swear to you you'll find tons of illegitimate cad-cad/HG kids from forced marriages.They even took the Shaanshi girls out in the city and told them to milk camels and sinced they lived in the city all their life they couldn't so they beat them. They also beat them if they didn't have light skinned kids. I know you copied and pasted Marehan with HG mothafacker. Take care of home first, and find your illegitimate cousins, nephews etc. in Banadir before you talk about Marehan faggat.

[musika man]

[quote="Luq_Ganane"]Horta, this stupid pm'sing 24/7 Shaanshi imbicle is friggin annoying. He's always bichin about something. You nacas who raped your girls in wholesale numbers in Banadir? Was it Marehan? Also who was in Baydhabo at that time Marehan? Raxanwein allied with Caydid, and invited him to Baydhabo. Thats what they get.This was all Caydid's gang unit who did all the raping, looting xasuuq etc.. SNF was a principled, sophisticated Militairy unit that were operating on civilized war norms. Go to Afgoi, Marka, Mogadishu and I could swear to you you'll find tons of illegitimate cad-cad/HG kids from forced marriages.They even took the Shaanshi girls out in the city and told them to milk camels and sinced they lived in the city all their life they couldn't so they beat them. They also beat them if they didn't have light skinned kids. I know you copied and pasted Marehan with HG mothafacker. Take care of home first, and find your illegitimate cousins, nephews etc. in Banadir before you talk about Marehan faggat. [/quote]

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listen you marexaan qawiil worshipper, rape is 7aram. whether it is applied 2 ur marexaan mum, dawldsade's habargedir mum or my mum. are you willing to go infront of allah and testify that no matexaan dude ever raped a somali woman? you marehaan guys worship ur qawiil more than islam and raped many somali muslim women. worship allah and not ur tribe.