“Sexual violence is a way to paralyze, to scare people. The minute there’s an increase in sexual violence, everyone stops moving, people don’t go to work because they’re scared.' Warring gangs in Haiti turn to sexual violence as a weapon:
February 13, 2023 GMTA woman who did not want to give her name for fear of retaliation poses for a photo during an interview at a clinic near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. The 36-year-old sent her two children to live with family in another part of the city after her husband was kidnapped and killed. Later, the men gang-raped her and forced her to flee her home.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Nadia hushes the crying 3-month-old baby swaddled in her arms, gently planting kisses on her forehead. She was 19, not ready to be a mother. But the young Haitian’s life changed when she was walking home from class on the dusty streets of a gang-controlled area of Haiti’s capital last year.
She was dragged into a car by a group of men, blindfolded and kidnapped. For three days, she was beaten, starved and gang-raped. Months later, she learned that she was pregnant. In an instant, her dreams of studying and economically lifting her family dissolved.
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