Médecins Sans Frontières - SM Video – Aisha testimony, sexual violence in Sudan

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF362409

Date taken / Date Recorded 25/03/2026 2:33 PM

Country Sudan

Commissioning section MSF-SPAIN

Photographer / videographer / producer Cindy Gonzalez

Copyright Cindy Gonzalez/MSF

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available yes

Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 2m3s

Maximum Size 1080px × 1920px 228.32 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist SCRIPT:

TEXTS

Content warning

This video
contains testimony
about sexual violence

For over a decade,
Aisha* had been
living in Zamzam
displacement camp,
North Darfur

* Pseudonym for anonimity

In April 2025
she had to flee
as the place
was attacked
by RSF

Tawila, North Darfur state
Sudan

Aisha became
pregnant
from the first rape

Months later,
she was assaulted
a second time

Aisha’s story is one
among thousands
in Sudan

Between
January 2024
and November 2025,
3,396 survivors
of sexual violence
sought care
in MSF facilities
in North
and South Darfur

1 in 5 survivors
was a minor

Sexual violence
in Sudan
cannot continue
to be ignored

Impunity
cannot persist

Sexual violence
cannot go
unpunished

SUBTITLES

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On the day we fled,

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they killed my child,

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12 years old,
in front of my door.

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My own child.

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And also,
my husband was killed.

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I left toward Abu Delaig.

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When I went to Abu Delaig,

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on some road,

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I found these people.

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Displaced, they raped me.

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In Zamzam road
the first time,

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and once again,

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when they beat me
and raped me.

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It happened twice.

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Because the second time,

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they beat me so hard

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I knew three days
after the beating

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that I miscarried.

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The bleeding was flowing
for almost a whole month.

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It caused something
like an infection,

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even before
the blood flowed.

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I fought them
and they hit me.

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Even the second time,

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the slaps they gave me
caused my eyes to hurt

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My tooth here was hit
and it fell out.

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By God, of course

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when I go to where people
gather and talk,

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they say: “mine died”,

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“my child died”,
“my husband died”,

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“my brother died”.

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When they speak,

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I tell myself
that they are all the same.

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Our life was beautiful,

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but after my husband
was killed

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and my child died...

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this world,

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I wish I died too, better.

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But no one dies
before their time.

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Even if I had accepted
those people,

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they shouldn’t have
treated me like this

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in front of people.

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But it’s God's will.

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Things that happened to us
this year...

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If people didn’t see it
with their eyes,

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they heard about it
with their ears.

SM Video – Aisha testimony, sexual violence in Sudan – ES

SM Video – Aisha testimony, sexual violence in Sudan – ES