Libyan women demand support for war rape victims

[tabatha]

About 100 Libyan women took to Tripoli’s streets on Saturday in a silent march to demand more support from the country’s new government for victims of rape during the eight-month war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi.

Their mouths covered with duct tape, women both young and old marched for an hour to Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib’s office and later met him to discuss their demands.

“We as Libyan women have been hoping for so long for somebody to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,” Jalila Ouraieth, whose Tripoli-based NGO Phoenix organised the march, told Reuters.

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“The activists who have been trying to gather information about this, they’re estimating 8,000 cases,” Ouraeith said, adding the figure could rise due to the number of unreported cases. She said there were also reports of men being raped.

http://feb17.info/news/libyan-women-demand-support-for-war-rape-victims/

[midnight]

1. K&R for these women activists.....

[Odin2005]

2. K&R for the victims!

:grouphug:

[tabatha]

3. Good grief - who in their right mind would unrec this.

[TheWraith]

4. It doesn't fit the narrative of Ghaddafi as paragon of leftist virtue.

And the rebels as capitalist imperialist running dog lackeys. :eyes: