Racial Targeting of Sexual Violence in Darfur
| Autor: | Wenona Rymond-Richmond, Alberto Palloni, John Hagan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Research and Practice Refugee Population Poison control Criminology Social issues Sudan Catchment Area Health Ethnicity Humans Medicine education Crime Victims Refugees education.field_of_study Sexual violence business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Military personnel Sexual abuse Government Rape Domestic violence Female business Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Public Health. 99:1386-1392 |
| ISSN: | 1541-0048 0090-0036 |
| Popis: | Objectives. We used the Atrocities Documentation Survey to determine whether Sudanese government forces were involved in racially targeting sexual victimization toward ethnically African women in the Darfur region of western Sudan. Methods. The US State Department conducted the survey by interviewing a randomized multistage probability sample of 1136 Darfur refugees at 20 sites in Chad in 2004. For a subset of 932 respondents who had fled from village clusters that accounted for 15 or more respondents per cluster, we used hierarchical linear models to analyze village-level patterns of reported sexual violence. We statistically controlled for individual sexual victimization to remove bias. Results. Respondents reported being subjected to racial epithets associated with sexual victimization significantly more often during combined attacks by Sudanese government forces and Janjaweed militia forces than during separate attacks by either force. Conclusions. Combined attacks by Sudanese government forces and Janjaweed militia forces led to racial epithets being used more often during sexual victimization in Darfur. Our results suggest that the Sudanese government is participating in the use of sexual assault as a racially targeted weapon against ethnically African civilians. |
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