Leila Aboulela (M) at a Sudan Revolution rally in Aberdeen, Scotland. Image from Aboulela’s Facebook Page.

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Leila Aboulela Reading Poetry at a Sudanese Revolution Support Rally in Aberdeen Is the Political Inspiration We Need

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My words to the young women who were raped at the Khartoum sit-in attack early this month

Yesterday at the protest organized by the Sudanese community in Aberdeen, I read out my poem:

To the young women who were raped at the sit-in attack

Know that you are innocent and honourable.

You did not lose your purity,

You did not lose your beauty,

You did not lose your intellect.

To the women who were raped at the sit-in attack, my young sisters,

Know that you are innocent and honourable.

It is he, the criminal, who violated the oath of loyalty he had sworn, misused the gun he was entrusted with, betrayed the uniform which elevated him.

It is he who is dishonourable, not you.

And you did not lose your purity.

It is he who is tainted, not you.

And you did not lose your beauty, nor your intellect. You did not lose your future.

It is he who is covered with shame, not you.

And you did not lose your future, it is still there waiting for you.

Lift up your head so you can see it.

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