The report was prepared by Dominique Serrano-Fitamant, a psychologist who specializes in sexual violence and trauma counselling. May. The women, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Ms. Serrano-Fitamant of rape, abductions, detentions and torture in many locations. The women reported being individually raped by many men during a few hours, but sometimes even for days. It is primarily the young women who are rounded up in villages and small cities. The soldiers take groups of five to 30 women to unknown places in trucks or they are locked up in houses where the soldiers live.
Any resistance is met with threats of being burned alive.
Ms. Serrano-Fitamant also heard that soldiers at control points would demand money, then jewelry, but later tell the women to undress in order to verify that they were hiding nothing. Overall, one to five men committed the rapes and the women were immediately released after the crime. The author found that, contrary to previous reports, many women want to talk about their experiences, but need appropriate circumstances to do so. However, I found the women did very much want to talk and had not been able to because there had been no one appropriate for them to talk to. She cited the example of a woman who had been abducted for three days and raped repeatedly.