When the Arab men in military uniforms caught Noura Moussa and raped her the other day, they took the trouble to explain themselves.
'We cannot let black people live in this land,' she remembers them telling her, and they used racial epithets against blacks, called her a slave, and added: 'We can kill any members of African tribes.' (Watch Ms. Noura in the Op-Ed special report, 'The Forgotten Genocide.')"
Ms. Noura is one of thousands of women and girls to be gang-raped in Darfur, as part of what appears to be a deliberate Sudanese government policy to break the spirit of several African tribes through mass rape.
This policy is shrewd as well as brutal, for the exceptional stigma of rape here often silences victims even as it terrorizes the entire population and forces people to flee.
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