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2005/1/7-8 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:35590 Activity:moderate
1/7     Yahoo! News - AP: Sri Lankan Teenager Raped by Rescuer:
        http://csua.org/u/amb
        Hope the rapist's genitals be bitten off by dogs.
        \_ so? in Vietnam there were a bunch of things going on...
           thousands of villages were burned down and thousands of
           kids were raped. There are also thousands of Viet/White and
           Viet/Black children born in the 70s. God knows how many
           women and children are being raped in Iraq. That's the
           nature of war. Here is a pretty good article
           on psychological/biological reasons for rape behaviors
           in ALL wars:          http://tinyurl.com/n1us
           \_ This article borders on pop psychology, with little meaningful
              analysis aside from vague hand-wavy references to other
              researcher's works.  I don't think this goes very far toward
              making or reinforcing your point.  Perhaps you should STFW for
              something a little less sensational and a little more analytical.
           \_ Tsunami = War.  Ok, I got it.
             \_ the scale is just so off. One rape in the rescue mission vs.
                hundreds of rape in wars. Totally off scale. Personally I'd
                trade in 1 rape to get rid of 1 unnecessary war.
                \_ I don't see anything in the article that says the guy
                   was actually part of any rescue operation.  It sounds
                   like it was just some dude who also happened to be
                   washed out or something.
                   \_ No, he wasn't part of a rescue operation -- he rescued
                      the girl, then subsequently forced himself on her.  In
                      that context, he's 'a rescuer'.  That's how I read it,
                      anyhow.
                      \_ Yes that's what the article says.  However, the
                         headline itself is very misleading, although true.
                         -- OP
                      \_ Sorry, I'm just trying to make sense of the 2nd
                         poster's connection between the tsunami and the
                         vietnam war.
        My point is that there are even more rapes in wars, why doesn't -/
        anyone care about that? Hundreds of rape vs. 1 rape in the
        disaster. Your sense of scale is warped.
        \_ Uhm, his sense of scale is fine; it's your sense of compassion
           that's fucked in the ass.
        \_ Somewhere there's a bridge missing its troll.
           \_ Well, tell that troll to learn how to formal his posts.
           \_ Well, tell that troll to learn how to format his posts.
              \_ How the hell do you "formal" a post troll?
                 \_ Well, presumably, one starts by spelling format with a
                    't' instead of an 'l' -- otherwise especially obtuse motd
                    denizens get confused.
                 \_ Put it in a Tux!
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csua.org/u/amb -> story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050107/ap_on_re_as/tsunami_rape
On a pilgrimage to a temple, the 18-year-old and her family stopped for a picnic by the beach. "He told me to grab hi s hand, that he will save me," she said. When they reached a b ank, he pushed her into a bed of brambles and raped her. "I screamed and told him not to hurt me," the shy teenager told The Assoc iated Press. "He put his hands around my neck and told me that even if h e kills me right there, no one will know." Earlier that day, the family and neighbors had left for the Kataragama te mple, venerated by Buddhists and Hindus, to celebrate her father's 65th birthday. Their bus, which carried 32 passengers, stopped at a beach. The girl was wading at the shore with two nieces when the waves crashed around them. At the teenager's home in a village near the southern town of Galle, her only surviving sister displayed photographs of their parents, brothers, sisters and their families at weddings and birthday celebrations. She allowed the AP to interview her younger sister on condition the teena ger and the family would not be named and no photographs would be taken. They fear being ostracized by the village because of the attack. Soaked with mud, he r body itched all over from the thorns. I didn't say anything and was terrified because they, to o, were men." The teenager was loaded into a truck with corpses and the injured. At Karapitiya hospital, doctors and nurses were kind, she said. D Wa santha said the teenager didn't mention the rape until a day after being admitted, and was initially treated for respiratory problems from inhal ing water. "She was very reluctant to talk and we didn't want to probe too much as s he was already very upset and kept saying not to tell anyone," Wasantha said. After learning of the rape, the doctor gave the young woman pills to prev ent pregnancy. They ask a lot of questions I don't understand and don't know how to respond," the teenager said, toying wit h the corner of her brown T-shirt. The teenager lived a sheltered life before the tsunami, but she did go to college for a time, studying the Sinhalese language, political science and economics. She dropped out a year ago to take care of the family hou sehold. "I want to be a journalist," she said when asked about the future. Her ey es lit up and she smiled faintly, but that faded when her aunt said they hoped some man would marry the teenager. Her sister soon dampened any idea of a quick marriage: She said gossip al ready was swirling around the village, where rape brings stigma and sham e to the victim rather than the rapist. The informati on contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewr itten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associ ated Press.
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tinyurl.com/n1us -> jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/Research/HNatureProposalsArticles/RapeWarfare.html
As a result of our inquiry into biological reasons for rape behavior, we have decided to concentrate on how frequently rape occurs in war. The fo rcible taking of womens sexual choice has been used as a way of attacki ng ones enemies since ancient times starting with cavemen, the Greeks a nd Romans, and medieval times leading all the way up to the American Civ il War, World War II, and the Vietnam War. Presently, genocidal rape i s happening in Bosnia-Herzegovnia, Croatia, and Rwanda. Ironically, unti l recently these violations of women were more of an insult to the fathe r, husband, or other group of men that these women belonged to. We will be using our previous research on biological reasons for rape thr oughout the course of the paper. We believe that there may be connection s between animal behavior in war and human behavior in war. We have read in Jane Goodalls book, Through a Window that when chimpanzees attack r ival groups they almost always will fiercely attack the females. This be havior may be paralleled in human warfare, where women become the reward for military bravery, but unlike with chimps, infanticide is common. There are three areas which we will examine more closely. We will study t he overall history of rape in war, and then focus in on the Vietnam War as an example. The genocidal rape and other violations of women in certa in parts of the world are perhaps the most upsetting because they are oc curring at this moment. What is it about war that seems to give men perm ission to rape women? What are some steps that can be taken to prevent t his horrendous assault on human rights from occurring? By raping women, or taking away a womans control over her reproductive choice, a man may feel more control over his own life. During war, when many men feel powerless because of rank, resorting to rape is a relativ ely easy way to regain some of their lost power. The male is usually of low status, which would mean that he is reproductively disadvantaged, and rape might be his only chance at repr oduction. When asked if they would commit rape if they knew they could get away wit h it, around half of the men surveyed answered yes. During war, a peri od of confusion where anything seems possible for the group who has the upper hand, rape is prevalent. Often, the troops are specifically told t o rape women, (as it was with American troops in the Vietnam War) as a w ay of demoralizing the people who were being invaded. Other times women were taken and raped as trophies and prizes. Recently, as we have seen i n Bosnia-Herzegovnia, rape has been used as a way of ethnic cleansing. The cartoonish depiction of a caveman bonking a woman on the head and dragging her off is not too f ar off from reality. Many laws in ancient civilizations considered women as property. When a woman was raped, she was often forced into marrying her assailant. In ancient Hebrew law, many times the rapist and the rap e victim were stoned to death. Raped women were considered damaged goods , and if a woman was found to be raped, then the husband/father/brothers would be monetarily reimbursed. The ancient Greeks and Romans would rape and enslave women af ter they had conquered a city. The Bible even condones the abduction of women as war trophies. War has certainly been prevalent in the twentieth century, and so has rap e There have been documented occurrences of rape during conflict in pla ces such as Vietnam, the Philippine Islands, El Salvador and in many oth er places during the world wars. There does not seem to be a place that is free from either rape or war on the planet. Even with all the knowledge of rape warfare in the past, somehow it is st ill being allowed to occur today. In her book, Rape Warfare: The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, Beverly Allen describes and analyzes three kinds of genocidal rape practiced by the Serb forces ther e Soldiers brutally rape women in public and then return several days l ater to guarantee safe passage for the terrified villagers only if they promise never to return. In this case, rape is used as an instrument of subjugation and fear-inducement which the soldiers can use to manipulate the decisions of the community they are trying to scare away. Secondly, persons held in concentration camps are repeatedly raped and often kill ed. And perhaps the most sickening form of rape is when soldiers repeate dly rape women until they become pregnant and then continue the acts of rape until it is too late in the pregnancy for the women to receive a sa fe abortion. The women are then released, eventually to give birth to a Serb child, and be eternally rejected by their husbands and family. Many of these women return home only to be compelled to commit suicide, many times after committing infanticide. This is not only forcing the women to have sex, but forcing them to become pregnant and have the soldiers children. That an injustice against womens rights to control their own bodies is occurring so frequently without any formal recognition is perh aps the largest tragedy of our times. Genocidal or systematic rape is not an isolated or random occurrence with in a war theater. It is planned by superior officers of the conquering f action as a widespread assault against a targeted group of women. It is often performed in front of the womens community as a way to humiliate them and terrorize and intimidate other citizens into fleeing. In additi on to the loss of control and dignity that all rape victims must face, t hese women realize that they have been targeted for rape not only becaus e they are women, but because they are women of the hated ethnicity or r ace. Maybe this needs to be separated from category of war crimes and be recognized as enraging molestation of human rights. IMPORTANT: For each Research Response, make sure the title of the respons e is different than previous titles shown above! Response Title: Author: E-Mail: Optional: For Further Info on this Topic, Check out this WWW Site: Response Text: Submit Response Start Over Article complete.