{"id":877,"date":"2017-10-06T00:16:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T00:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=877"},"modified":"2017-10-06T00:16:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T00:16:04","slug":"armed-forces-of-car-use-sexual-violence-against-women-and-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2017\/10\/06\/armed-forces-of-car-use-sexual-violence-against-women-and-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Forces of CAR use Sexual Violence Against Women and Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/sexual-violence-weapon-war-car-hrw-171005073242133.html<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Armed fighters in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/central-african-republic.html\" target=\"_self\">Central African Republic<\/a>\u00a0(CAR) have used sexual violence to &#8220;terrorise women and children&#8221; as a tactic of war during the nearly five-year conflict,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/human-rights-watch.html\" target=\"_self\">Human Rights Watch<\/a>\u00a0(HRW) has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Fighters beat women, burned them and left them with broken bones, smashed teeth and head wounds, the New York-based rights group said in a report on Thursday, citing testimony.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors said they were raped by up to 10 or more men during a single incident.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/sites\/default\/files\/report_pdf\/car1017_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>, there have been\u00a0305 cases of rape and sexual slavery against 296 women and girls by members of armed groups between early 2013 and mid-2017.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the mainly Muslim Seleka and Christian Anti-balaka forces &#8211; the two main parties involved in the conflict &#8211; have used sexual violence as revenge for perceived support of rivals, HRW said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/sexual-violence-weapon-war-car-hrw-171005073242133.html &nbsp; Armed fighters in the\u00a0Central African Republic\u00a0(CAR) have used sexual violence to &#8220;terrorise women and children&#8221; as a tactic of war during the nearly five-year conflict,\u00a0Human Rights Watch\u00a0(HRW) has claimed. Fighters beat women, burned them and left them with broken bones, smashed teeth and head wounds, the New York-based rights group said in a report on Thursday, citing testimony&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2017\/10\/06\/armed-forces-of-car-use-sexual-violence-against-women-and-children\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}