The Duchess of Edinburgh was moved to tears upon hearing first-hand reports of a genocide unfolding in Sudan during a day spent with mothers and children on its border with Chad.
Sophie, 59, appeared overwhelmed by the women’s accounts of surrendering to rape to stay alive or obtain food for their families, seeing their daughters face the same fate and other children being killed.
“But what they do to the children is … I can’t even use the words,” the duchess told The Times after a private meeting with survivors, referencing the militia using rape to terrorise Sudan’s western Darfur region. “These women have no option but to leave.”
Sophie said afterwards that she had been left “quite wobbly” after speaking to the women
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The Times accompanied Sophie on a three-day visit to Chad over the weekend — the first