Ayanna went to the Burundian base to get medicine for her sick baby. A Somali interpreter working there told her to come back without the child. When she returned, he called her and three other young women over to a fenced area where six soldiers were waiting.
The soldiers threatened them a gunpoint, dragged them into a bunker, beat and raped them. One woman was badly hurt. They threw the items at us and a bag to put them in. Qamar went to the Burundian base to get medicine for her sick mother. An interpreter told her to follow two soldiers who would give her the medicine. She followed them to a bunker behind a fence where one man raped her as the second walked around.
I told the interpreter I was having second thoughts and wanted to leave. The man undressed himself and we had sex; the baby cried twice and the soldier seemed annoyed by it. He cut her vagina. He wounded her very badly. They were offered 50 camels in compensation. She has heard that a case opened in Mogadishu but the family were not informed. Mother, I better die to hide my shameful face.
Thomson Reuters Foundation is a charity registered in England and Wales registration number: About Thomson Reuters Foundation. About our Women coverage We focus on stories that help to empower women and bring lasting change to gender inequality. Newsletter sign up:. Republicans defy party to fight climate change. Ayanna, internally displaced mother, Mogadishu Ayanna went to the Burundian base to get medicine for her sick baby.
When they went to the Ugandan base, she saw four other girls waiting. Kassa, aged 19, Mogadishu Kassa started having sex regularly with a soldier because she needed money for food.
