Women rights activists told the SEMG they had raised the issue of rape of IDPs at the highest levels of the TFG, only to be told that “rape does not happen in Somalia” – a position expressed by a senior TFG official during a meeting with the SEMG in Mogadishu- or to be instructed to “bring the victims to us if they have really been raped” – a response they considered tantamount to to intimidation.[761]
Women rights activists told the SEMG they had raised the issue of rape of IDPs at the highest levels of the TFG, only to be told that “rape does not happen in Somalia” – a position expressed by a senior TFG official during a meeting with the SEMG in Mogadishu- or to be instructed to “bring the victims to us if they have really been raped” – a response they considered tantamount to to intimidation.[761]