Under a tent in MSF's mobile clinic, a health promotion and informative session on sexual gender based violence session is carried out.
Between July and December 2023, 135 of the patients who presented to an MSF medical facility in eastern Chad disclosed that they were survivors of rape. All are women or girls, between 14 and 40 years old, and most were attacked before their arrival in Chad. The attackers were armed in 90 percent of cases.
Of the patients treated by MSF, nearly a quarter report having suffered at least one sexual assault. More than 40 percent were raped by multiple attackers. Some explain how multiple men participated: making threats, holding the victim down, or standing guard during the rape. A total of 13 patients have described being kidnapped. These detentions ranged from one night to several months, with some forced to perform domestic chores, or tied up during the day and raped at night.
One woman explained that her neighbors' house had been set on fire, killing the ten people inside. Others speak of seeing and smelling corpses near their homes and on the roads. At night, in a hospital where we work, women can be heard screaming in their sleep, “They are coming, they are coming!”
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