UNITED NATIONS, New York – As militants boasted about how they would divide the girls among themselves, Khetam , a Syrian refugee in Iraq, feared for her life. “Two commanders had chosen me and my friend as their brides,” she recalled to UNFPA. The so-called “marriage” would mean rape and control for as long as the militants desired. “When we objected that we were too young to wed, they beat us and tortured us for most of that night, until we had no choice but to relent.”
The military court martial in Bentiu of Unity State has on Friday convened the hearing in the case of three SSPDF soldiers accused of killing two police officers in Leer County.