The baby bouncing on Nesma’s lap carries his mother’s smile and curious eyes, but no trace of what she endured at the hands of three paramilitary fighters who gang-raped her two years ago in Sudan’s capital.
“I saw their faces. I remember them,” the 26-year-old university graduate told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Baby Yasser is among thousands of children born to rape survivors during three years of war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
Nesma’s family fled Khartoum at the start of the conflict, but a year later she returned alone to retrieve essential documents, including birth, graduation and death certificates needed to rebuild their lives.
In Khartoum North, RSF fighters stopped her bus near an industrial area, ordered everyone off and separated men from women. She says she lost consciousness as a third fighter assaulted her.
