The first day, five Seleka raped me. Every day we could not rest—every day there was rape, by different fighters.… We became their wives. Each fighter who arrived at the base, it was to rape us. If we refused, they hit us…. I went to look for firewood. I drew water, looked for water at the river, prepared their food. All of the women did this. All the women were raped each night.
Five of the women and girls became pregnant but had no means to terminate the pregnancies. In the bush, what could they do? They had to keep the pregnancy. The Seleka didn’t react. They still raped the pregnant women.
As told to researchers for Human Rights Watch
