They gave us work to do. Sometimes preparing food, doing the laundry. Sometimes when you were preparing food they would come and three of them would rape you. They did that three or four times a day, several men— different men…. All five girls were raped like this.
[The young women escaped a week later, but after two months in a village, another group of Seleka caught them]
Four of them took me and threw me on the ground. They started taking turns raping me.
[Sophie realized she was pregnant while in a village after fleeing]
I said to myself, If I had medicine, I would abort the pregnancy. But since I
don’t know of anything, I have to stay like this until I give birth. I didn’t go to the hospital. I didn’t get any medical care up until the birth. There was a health center in the village but there was no one there—everyone had fled.
When I see men pass by, I wonder if perhaps they are some of the men who [raped] me.
As told to researchers for Human Rights Watch
