The rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that more than 200 women and girls were raped by members of the Sudanese army in a 36-hour assault on the north Darfur town of Tabit beginning on October 30, 2014. <br /><br /> Euronews spoke with the Sudanese president Omar al Bashir about the report.<br /><br /> “This basically is not a report, but it’s a radio news item from Radio Dabanga which is hostile to us,” said al Bashir.<br /><br /> “It’s opposition-run, and its Israeli-funded,” he continued. “The United Nations responded to the news by sending a group of investigators to Thabit village . This UN group investigated the charges and confirmed that the information in the report was incorrect. Then they returned and wrote a report confirming that the information in the report was incorrect and no rape had taken place.”<br /><br /> But the US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power has sharply criticised Sudan for what she described as “shamefully denying the United Nations the ability to properly investigate this incident.”
