Sex slave: "Every day we were raped"

[Lyric]

Sex slave: 'Every day we were raped'

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (CNN) -- The outbreak of war seemed like a joke to Jasmina, then just 19 years old. She dreamed of being an economist and says she played with her toddler son and baby daughter as if they were toys.
Jasmina says she was raped repeatedly during the rule of Radovan Karadzic: "Every day we were raped."

Jasmina says she was raped repeatedly during the rule of Radovan Karadzic: "Every day we were raped."

But in April 1992, the Serb soldiers took over her city of Bijeljina, in northeast Bosnia near the border with Serbia, and began to kill, torture and terrorize the Muslims there in a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing.

"Whole families were disappearing during the night. Sometimes we could see their bodies in the gardens, sometimes not even that," Jasmina said.

"The men from my family were beaten up the first day. ... My mother just disappeared. I never found out what happened."

Paramilitaries loyal to Arkan, the Serbian ultranationalist later indicted for crimes against humanity, came to the home Jasmina shared with her husband and extended family to search for valuables and weapons. When they found no guns they started beating her husband, said Jasmina who asked CNN not to use her last name to protect her children.

"Then they started torturing me. I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I was totally naked and covered in blood, and my sister-in-law was also naked and covered in blood. ... I knew I had been raped, and my sister-in-law, too." In a corner, she saw her mother-in-law, holding her children and crying.

(more at link)

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/22/sarajevo.rape/index.html

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My god. And this is just one story...one out of countless thousands. Not all atrocities against women happen in the Middle East and Africa. We would all do well to remember that. Even in Europe, horrific violence against women and minorities is still capable of happening.

We are not nearly as safe as we think we are. This story makes me, as a woman, feel a bit less secure in my freedom and lifestyle with every passing moment. And to think, the Repukes have bitched and whined about Clinton getting us involved in that mess ever since it happened. I suppose that if this kind of horror isn't happening in some oil-rich nation that affects THEIR interests, well they just don't give a damn.

Sometimes I hate my species. :cry:

[BlueJazz]

1. I understand...It's a horrible true-life Nightmare...And Cheney makes "Rape Jokes"

:mad:

[thecrow]

6. He does?

one more reason to despise him...

I never heard of him doing so. WHen did he do this?
I don't doubt you, I just didn't know.

[Breeze54]

2. It happens everywhere.....

:(

Rape

http://www.dadalos.org/int/Menschenrechte/Grundkurs_MR3/frauenrechte/warum/vergewaltigung.htm

Rape exists in practically all today's societies, even in those states where no official data is available until now. According to the UN reports, rape occurs frequently in the following countries: Afghanistan, Guyana, Cambodia, Colombia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, on the Philippines, in the Slovak Republic Swaziland, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda and Zaire. In Germany, El Salvador, Micronesia, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Peru, the Seychelles, Sweden and Tajikistan, a more or less large increase in rape has been observed in recent times. Only in Mauritania, Laos, Georgia and Tunisia does rape appear to occur less.

The actual number of instances of rape is far from being recorded in full, since the unreported number is extremely high. Frequently, the number of reports made to the police is taken as being correct. A study carried out in Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, the USA and South Korea concluded than 8 to 15% of women had been raped at a young adult age. If the number of attempted rapes are added to this, this provides a rate of 20-27%.


Rape During War

War has been link to mass rape for hundreds of years. German soldiers raped Soviet women during the Second World War and Soviet soldiers, German women. Japanese soldiers forced Korean, Chinese and Taiwanese women into prostitution during colonialism and the Pacific war (who were referred to as "comfort women"). During the nine month Bengali-Pakistani war in 1971, Pakistani soldiers raped between 200,000 and 400,000 Bengali women according to estimates. Rape and sexual torture took place on a large scale, both in the Vietnam war and in the war in Yugoslavia. It can be assumed that in every region where a conflict is taking place at the moment, armed conflict goes hand in hand with sexual violence (East Timor, Kashmir, Haiti, Djibouti etc).

It is difficult to estimate the scale of rape during war, on the one hand because representative figures from current conflict regions are difficult to obtain, and on the other, because the women concerned mostly remain silent due to the trauma or the fear of social stigma or stigma within the family. If concrete figures are available, their representative character is to be doubted, since thy are mostly put together by the opposing political party and used for propaganda purposes.

The background: Today, it is taken as been proven that rape during war does not take place due to lack of sexual satisfaction. Rape also takes place if willing women or prostitutes are available. Rape during war mainly serves the social needs of the rapist, the self-certainty of manliness and power. Since soldiers continually have to surrender themselves to feelings of fear and powerlessness, rapes serves to help them regain their feelings of power and diminish fear. An archaic model of manliness is maintained in armies to match this purpose, which is linked to violence and dominance, whereas womanliness and "womanly" qualities such as fear and empathy are considered with scorn. The soldiers are meant to identify with this model of manliness; rape therefore provides proof of the "manliness" of the soldiers.

An explanation for rape during war cannot be given without the latent existing contempt for women in the respective societies, which is encouraged by rules that hinder feelings of this nature breaking out being put out of force during times of war. Mass rape also serves to demoralise the opponent, who is shown that he is not in the position to protect his family. This comprises an attack on his (male) identity. This is why it is consciously used as a strategy of war or indirectly promoted and tolerated.

The Consequences of Rape During War

The consequences to mental health and the social consequences are similar to those of rape during peacetime. However, here, the trauma is just one part of the mental strain that a victim has to endure due to the consequences of war. The woman suffers grave consequences if a pregnancy results from the rape. Wives are abandoned by their husbands, some commit suicide or flee abroad never to return. This leads to the concept of rape as a method of demoralizing and destroying the opponent socially a success.

What is Being Against Mass Rape During War? Since 1949 rape during war counts as a crime against international law. "Women are particularly protected against attacks on their honor and namely against rape, coercion to perform prostitution and unchaste activities" (4th Geneva Convention). This passage has changed nothing in the practice of rape during war. The conviction of rapists (for the first time in front of the International Tribunal in den Haag) first made rape a war crime with all its consequences. It remains to be seen whether this approach will have a deterring effect of future warring parties.

[BreweryYardRat]

3. That poor kid.

Has Karadzic been tried in absentia for his atrocities? If so, will he get life imprisonment or (preferably) death by hanging?

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. 20 thousand or more women were put in rape camps

the youngest were 11 years old

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. shocking story