Adut Kon Deng

Captured in a neighboring town where she was searching for food, Adut Kon Deng was marched to northern Sudan.

"The people of Wagabeil were forced to carry very heavy things and many died because of this. My two daughters and my son died as we walked to the North because there was no water. Even though I was pregnant the raiders raped me - they did not care."

Once in the North, Adut and two other women were taken to her new master's home, where he gave her a Muslim name and put her to work. She was ordered to collect water, wash clothes, and grind grain. She slept with many other girls in the kitchen of the master's home and ate leftovers from the family's meals.

"The master knew I was pregnant but he 'cut' [ritual circumcision - female genital mutilation] me and then raped me many times. He would not come to me at night until he cut me first...If I refused him when he came to me at night, he would beat me and call me 'slave.'"

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