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Thousands of boys are kept in chains, tortured and abused in Islamic schools across Sudan - with younger children raped by older students, investigation reveals
  • Boys as young as five are routinely shackled and beaten by teachers in 'khalwas'

  • There are nearly 30,000 of the religious schools across the whole of Sudan

  • There have been reports of older pupils raping and sexually assaulting others

  • An 18-month investigation by BBC News Arabic uncovered extent of the abuses
The News Arabic investigation The Schools that Chain Boys, which airs today on the channel, found malnourished boys living in squalid conditions and forced to sleep on the floor in the extreme heat.

Undercover news hound and former khalwa student Fateh al-Rahman al-Hamdani made the discoveries after secretly filming inside 23 khalwas over a period of 18 months.

Reports of torture inside khalwas are . In recent years, reports have been made of abuse of boys at religious schools in Nigeria, Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
 and Pakistain.
Posted by: trailing wife 2020-10-20
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=585196