Nyala, September 25(Darfur24) The murder of two girls on last Friday and Tuesday in Bulbul Dalal Angara, 36 km west of Nyala, in Bilil locality of South Darfur state, under torture by their families, brings total number of girls tortured to death by their relatives in South and East Darfur to 11.
A local community leader, Adam from Bulbul area told Darfur 24 that an eighteen-year-old girl was beaten to death by her brothers and father for being pregnant out of wedlock .
Adam added that the case was reported to police , while the brother and father of the deceased girl were arrested .
On the sixth of last June, 5 girls were killed by their relatives in the Debbat Hamra area in Al-Salam locality, on the pretext that they possessed a mobile phone after tying them to tree trunks and torturing them to death.
The police later arrested some of the accused, while the search is still underway to arrest others who hid themselves from prosecution.
In May of last year, two girls were killed under torture and three others were subjected to excessive violence in Asalaya locality in East Darfur state by brothers, and a similar incident in August of the same year led to two deaths and five torture.
The families of the accused are currently putting pressure on the local government of Al-Firdous in East Darfur to release their sons from the police guard, on the grounds that the family did not file a report against the perpetrators.
The incidents of killing and torturing women were not limited to South and East Darfur, as two girls were killed in Wada’a town in Kalimandu locality in North Darfur state in January 2020 at the hands of their brothers and sisters under the pretext of having romantic relations with men in the town.