Iraqi Women Paying the Price for Their 'Liberation'

[Tinoire]

Iraqi Women Paying the Price for Their 'Liberation'
by Dahr Jamail http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com

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Within three months of the fall of Baghdad, HRW had documented 70 cases of rape and abduction of Iraqi women. As brutal as the regime of Saddam Hussein was, violent crime against women averaged only one case every three months under Hussein's rule, whereas in July 2003, there were several per week. And the situation is far, far worse today.

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Not all criminal gangs were satisfied with ransom money. Twenty-three-year-old Sajidah and her 17-year-old sister-in-law Hanan were kidnapped just weeks after Sajidah's wedding. The two women were taken to Yemen, where they found 130 other Iraqi women who had been kidnapped and forced into prostitution by their captors.

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Fakhriyah is around 20 years old, but she doesn't know for sure. In fact, she can no longer recall her father's name, as she is now a drug addict. "I was living in an orphanage and was kidnapped the day Baghdad fell," said Fakhriyah. She described how an American tank was stationed near the orphanage due to its proximity to an airport, and how the U.S. troops allowed the orphanage to be looted.

"The kidnappers took turns raping me, and I don't remember how long they kept me until they threw me out on the street," she said, dazed and high on glue, trying to blot out her miserable existence. She uses any drug she can get her hands on, "so I don't feel what's going on around me or who is raping me again."

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http://www.antiwar.com/jamail/?articleid=4578

From the Geneva Convention... that "quaint" document.

Article 27

Protected persons are entitled, in all circumstances, to respect for their persons, their honour, their family rights, their religious convictions and practices, and their manners and customs. They shall at all times be humanely treated, and shall be protected especially against all acts of violence or threats thereof and against insults and public curiosity.

Women shall be especially protected against any attack on their honour, in particular against rape, enforced prostitution, or any form of indecent assault.

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm



Fuck you George Bush.

[Swamp Rat]

1. .

:cry:

[itzamirakul]

2. Rape, Loot, and Pillage...

from the safety of the White House....

[eleonora]

3. it's just revolting

how many lives are wrecked by this stupid, stupid administration's acts.

[realFedUp]

4. to see how a nation is doing, look at how it's treating the women

but of course the more important
question is "are there any blowjobs
going on in the oval office".