Nyala, October 22( Darfur24) A girl was killed by her brothers in Bulbul Abu Jazo area, 41 km west of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, simply for talking to a stranger on a mobile phone.
A relative of the victim, who preferred not to give his name, told Darfur 24 that the dead woman, Hikma Abdullah Ishaq, was killed last Wednesday night after her brother found her making a phone call, and forced her to confess to whomever she was talking to.
As soon as she responded to her brother, he beat her with a stick and kicked her with the legs, and other family members joined him, which led to her death on the spot.
He stated that the perpetrators agreed after her death to bury her, but notables from the area stood against burying her without an autopsy, so that she would be transferred to the city of Nyala.
A police source in Al-Salam locality confirmed the escape of the main suspect from the area after the death of Hikma was confirmed, while investigations are still underway to arrest the perpetrators, who participated in the beating of the victim.
The Director of the General Department for Women and the Family at the Ministry of Social Affairs, Sarah Mustafa Moussa, said that the repeated murders of girls in the state need legal deterrence.
Sarah revealed that the Ministry of Social Affairs submitted a recommendation to the state government to direct the prosecution not to allow customary settlements regarding the killing of girls and women to prevent the perpetrators from impunity.
On the sixth of last June, 5 girls were killed by their relatives in the Debbat Hamra area in Al Salam locality, after they were tied to tree trunks and tortured to death on the pretext that they possessed mobile phones.
The families of the suspects are currently putting pressure on the local government of Al-Firdous in East Darfur to release their sons from the police guard, on the pretext 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 under the pretext of having romantic relations with men.