Attackers raped, beat and robbed more than 100 women and girls in northern South Sudan over a 10-day period in November, aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said.
« Women and young girls have been coming to the MSF clinic in Bentiu en masse over the past week after surviving horrific episodes of sexual violence, » Ruth Okello, an MSF midwife in South Sudan, was quoted as saying in an MSF statement Friday.
« Some are girls under 10 years old and others are women older than 65. Even pregnant women have not been spared from these brutal attacks. »
The state minister for information in Northern Liech State, where the attacks were reported, told Reuters news agency that the accounts were not accurate.
« A rape of such a magnitude is not true, » Lam Tungwar told Reuters.
