Women in War
"... testimonies from survivors confirm that rape was extremely widespread and that thousands of women were individually raped, gang-raped, raped with objects such as sharpened sticks or gun barrels, held in sexual slavery (either collectively or through forced "marriage") or sexually mutilated. According to witnesses, many women were killed immediately after being raped.Rapes were sometimes followed by sexual mutilation, including mutilation of the vagina and pelvic area with machetes, knives, sticks, boiling water, and in one case, acid..."(Rwanda, 1996)
"Two Akha girls, taken from their rural village by Burmese troops and used as army porters, could not have imagined the lethal brutality they would face during their forced internment... The two of them had been raped continually for six nights by two or three men each night, including the soldiers' commander." Despite the multiple serial rapes, said the headman, the teens were still forced to labour all day as army porters.The troops gang-raped all the women for two days and two nights. After that, all the 99 villagers were reportedly killed by the soldiers." ( Burma,1996)
"...the investigators said they had confirmed the rapes of 168 women during the riots, of whom 20 had died during or after the assaults. They said they presumed that many other women had either fled the city or were too traumatized to report their rapes. Some victims have been cowed into silence by threats or by rumors of another round of attacks and rapes, the investigators said. Others have committed suicide. And they said they had heard reports of additional rapes and sexual assaults in the weeks after the riots. Most of the attacks, like most of the looting and arson, were directed against the ethnic Chinese minority, which often becomes a scapegoat in times of conflict or hardship in Indonesia." (Jakarta,1998)
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I was angry last saturday nite after watch "Rambo IV" in cinema. Actually it wasn't the first time I became angry after watching a movie, but this time it's really break my heart. So sad to know how women been raped and killed in those countries. And it's happen everywhere and everyday. Can you imagine that living in a fear and feel sorry to be alive cause you know it will happen to you? And the worst is people who did raping and killing in Burma, Rwanda,etc, somehow have some kinda support from the government, it's like a "Licence to Rape" as a weapon for their war. This is insane and absolutely wrong. I remember one of my friend said, "Who said that God is fair?" And I don't know what to say more about it. I can't just close my eyes and ignore it, pretend that I never know about it. I just can't do it anymore. I wish there's a way to clooning a Rambo to thousand times and send it to every place and kill those bastards. I wish people start to feel their pain and together stop that wars. I don't know how but I believe there's must be a way to solve it. I wish God isn't sleep, if there's God above us. |