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Mozambique: Muslims have kidnapped and enslaved more than 600 women and girls since 2018

“Mozambique: Hundreds of women, girls abducted,” Relief Web, December 7, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

(Johannesburg) – An armed group linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) has since 2018 kidnapped and enslaved more than 600 women and girls in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province, Human Rights Watch said today. Mozambican and regional forces have rescued some of them, but many remain missing.

The group, known locally as Al Sunnah wa Jama’ah (ASWJ) and Al-Shabab (or mashababos) forced younger, healthy-looking, and lighter-skinned women and girls in their custody to “marry” their fighters, who enslave and sexually abuse them. Others have been sold to foreign fighters for between 40,000 and 120,000 Meticais (US$600 to US$1,800). Abducted foreign women and girls, in particular, have been released after their families paid ransom.

“Al Shabab’s leaders should immediately release every woman and girl in their captivity,” said Mausi Segun, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “They should take all necessary steps to prevent rape and sexual abuse by their fighters, end child marriage, forced marriage, and the sale and enslavement of women and girls at their bases and areas of operation.”

Between August 2019 and October 2021, Human Rights Watch remotely interviewed 37 people, including former abductees, their relatives, security sources, and government officials, and monitored media reports about kidnappings. They said that Al-Shabab abducted women and girls during attacks in various Cabo Delgado districts, including Mocímboa da Praia in March, June, and August 2020, and Palma in March 2021.

A 33-year-old woman said that Al-Shabab fighters assaulted her aunt, a local official, and forced her at gunpoint to identify all the houses containing girls between ages 12 and 17 in Diaca town, Mocimboa da Praia. The woman counted 203 girls but did not know whether the fighters abducted all the girls. “Some mothers were begging the fighters to take them instead of their daughters,” a 27-year-old man said. “But one of the mashababos said they didn’t want old women with children and diseases.”

A 34-year-old former abductee from Mocimboa da Praia said he was forced to select the women and girls for sex with the fighters on their return from military operations. “Those [women] who refused were punished with beatings, and no food for days.”

On April 30, the African Union Commission’s special envoy on women, peace, and security, Bineta Diop, called on the Mozambique government, regional bodies, and the international community to “act swiftly and provide adequate support” to women and girls who had been held and mistreated by Al-Shabab.

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[deleted] 11:20 10.12.2021
These bastards deserves death time to stop and kill islam.
Pamela Lovejoy 06:53 10.12.2021
I agree with Barbra Press.
Barbara Press 05:17 10.12.2021
How does Islam call itself a religion of “Peace” when Africa is riddled with Islamist’s enslaving Christians. Muslim Slavery must be stopped. Mohammed taking child brides (rape)must not be emulated
sharmla dharamalingam 05:08 10.12.2021
If ISIS, Al Shabab and ASWJ are fighting for 'freedom' ; they should not be BARBARIC hippocrates and consider the freedom of the young girls, they kidnap, rape and enslave!
Danny Brackett 05:03 10.12.2021
Such nice people. Putrid! The Bible tells you what they are!Insulting to be called Islamaphobe!
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