Racial targeting of sexual violence in Darfur.

OBJECTIVES: We used the Atrocities Documentation Survey to determine whether Sudanese government forces were involved in racially targeting sexual victimization toward ethnically African women in the Darfur region of western Sudan. METHODS: The US State Department conducted the survey by interviewin...

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Publicado en:American Journal of Public Health Vol. 99; no. 8; pp. 1386 - 1393
Autores principales: Hagan J, Rymond-Richmond W, Palloni A
Formato: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: American Public Health Association Aug2009
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          Hagan J
          Rymond-Richmond W
          Palloni A
        affil: Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-1330, USA. j-hagan@northwestern.edu
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          Crime Victims
          Ethnic Groups Sudan
          Race Factors
          Sexual Abuse
          Women
          Chad
          Cluster Analysis
          Female
          Funding Source
          Government Sudan
          Human
          Linear Regression
          Logistic Regression
          Male
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          Military Personnel
          Models, Statistical
          Poisson Distribution
          Quantitative Studies
          Rape
          Refugees Chad
          Residence Characteristics
          Secondary Analysis
          Stratified Random Sample
          Sudan
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          Terrorism
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      ab: OBJECTIVES: We used the Atrocities Documentation Survey to determine whether Sudanese government forces were involved in racially targeting sexual victimization toward ethnically African women in the Darfur region of western Sudan. METHODS: The US State Department conducted the survey by interviewing a randomized multistage probability sample of 1136 Darfur refugees at 20 sites in Chad in 2004. For a subset of 932 respondents who had fled from village clusters that accounted for 15 or more respondents per cluster, we used hierarchical linear models to analyze village-level patterns of reported sexual violence. We statistically controlled for individual sexual victimization to remove bias. RESULTS: Respondents reported being subjected to racial epithets associated with sexual victimization significantly more often during combined attacks by Sudanese government forces and Janjaweed militia forces than during separate attacks by either force. CONCLUSIONS: Combined attacks by Sudanese government forces and Janjaweed militia forces led to racial epithets being used more often during sexual victimization in Darfur. Our results suggest that the Sudanese government is participating in the use of sexual assault as a racially targeted weapon against ethnically African civilians.
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