Journalist: Women raped at Abu Ghraib were later ‘honor killed’

[babsbunny]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/women-abu-ghraib-honor-killed/

By Daniel Tencer
Saturday, September 11th, 2010 -- 10:24 pm

Some women who were raped at the US's Abu Ghraib prison facility in Iraq were later "honor killed" by their families, says a Jordanian reporter who writes on women's issues.

"In Abu Ghraib, women were tortured by the Americans much more than the men," Lima Nabil told The Independent. "One woman said she witnessed five girls being raped. Most of the women in the prison were raped – some of them left prison pregnant. Families killed some of these women – because of the shame."

Nabil, who has reported extensively on the status of women in the Arab world and runs a home for runaway girls, made the comments to renowned foreign correspondent Robert Fisk in an article on honor killings in Jordan. Nabil did not expand on her comments in the article.

[yella_dawg]

1. Dupe

[BlancheSplanchnik]

2. "In Abu Ghraib, women were tortured by the Americans much more than the men," Lima Nabil told The In

that comes as no surprise, though what IS surprising is that that statement made it to print.

Such facts are always censored by omission. I remember all the imagery and outrage at the revelation of Abu Ghraib--and much focus on Pfc. Lynndey England, a woman abusing a man. But NO attention paid to what was happening to the women in custody there, at the hands of male soldiers. Public outrage against rights abuses rarely acknowledges atrocities specifically against women.

[msongs]

3. a different view of "shame" which is a useless emotion to being with nt

[L0oniX]

4. Figures. More than 20% of women in the military get raped too.