The Bigger Story in the Real War on Women by Phyllis Chesler Breitbart May 31, 2014 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1313/the-bigger-story-in-the-real-war-on-women Print Send RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. And so now Malaysian men have joined the circus of barbarism against women that is very much upon us this season. Is such violence specific to Asia? Actually, no. For example, similar kinds of bestial rape-murders took place in Guatemala at the hands of paramilitary troops. One haunting book recounts the tale of a girl who was literally raped to death​. She​ began singing the Ave Maria until she actually died and her singing did not stop the men but it did "spook" them. More recently, indigenous women have brought lawsuits against military men for gang-rape. Such matters may still be pending. Repeated public gang rapes were used as weapons of war in Bosnia, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Sudan, and along the way the International Tribunal of Justice declared rape to be a war crime. That declaration has not stopped sexual violence from happening, and individual sovereign countries not holding themselves accountable for this crime. The Malaysian suggestion to solve this problem by bringing back the hudud laws is laughable since this would only further penalize women. » CONTINUE READING Related Topics:  Gender, Global Culture

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