In Somalia, rape is "normal", but the government can change that | Human Rights Watch

In Somalia, rape is "normal", but the government can change that | Human Rights Watch:

(Mogadishu) – Maryam, a 37-year-old single mother who was gang raped in late 2012 in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, told us that she regretted going to the police almost as soon as she got to the police station.

The male officers abruptly ended the investigation when she started bleeding all over the floor.

“They told me to go home and wash off the blood,” she said. “But before they let me go, they told me I had to wash the floor where I was bleeding. I sat down, they gave me a brush and I cleaned the floor.”

Maryam never went back and the perpetrators of this dreadful attack remain at-large.

 

A Somali woman walks alone in central Mogadishu.