Reply #42: Libyan woman (Eman al-Obeidi) recounts gang rape by Gadhafi troops [View All]

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Source: AP

Libyan woman recounts gang rape by Gadhafi troops


HADEEL AL-SHALCHI | April 12, 2011 07:34 AM EST |


TRIPOLI, Libya — Since Iman al-Obeidi burst into the hotel housing foreign journalists in Tripoli and recounted her gang rape by pro-Gadhafi militiamen, she says many people on the streets of the capital have recognized her and praised her bravery. Even cab drivers have refused to take her money to offer their support.

Al-Obeidi spoke to reporters from The Associated Press and National Public Radio from her home without Libyan government minders, who keep an almost constant watch over foreign journalists the regime has invited in to cover its side of the uprising against Gadhafi's 42-year rule of this North African Arab country.

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"I kept fighting back. I hit back a lot and I kept fighting," she said. "They eventually tied my arms and legs together."

Tied naked and left on the floor of a room inside a huge house, al-Obeidi said a total of fifteen men took turns raping her, at least three men at a time. They would strangle her, cover her head while raping her, and kick her when they were done, she said.

"My neck turned blue from being strangled," she said.

She said the men were drunk all the time, and would pour alcohol in her eyes, nose and mouth to cut off her air supply. She said they also poured alcohol in her vagina, and sodomized her with a Kalashnikov rifle.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110412/ml-libya-woman-attacked/