Human rights groups: Iraqi women raped at Abu Ghraib jail

[PaDUer]

Can’t talk

Closed nature of Iraqi society made claims difficult to verify, women prefer to die rather than talk.

By Rouba Kabbara – BAGHDAD

Iraqi women who were held at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad have complained of rape by both US and Iraqi jailers, according to human rights groups citing alleged victims.

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According to Khamas, the prisoner said her cellmate had been rendered unconscious for 48 hours. "She claimed she had been raped 17 times in one day by Iraqi police in the presence of American soldiers."

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One former male prisoner, Amer Abu Durayid, 30, who was released from Abu Ghraib on May 13, told AFP he had seen women being taken into a room. "They had to pass in front of our tent and cried out, 'Find a way to kill us'" he said.

Human rights groups point out that in a conservative society like Iraq women feel that rape dishonours their whole family.

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Khamas, Mohammed and Hoda Nuaimi, a politics professor at Baghdad University, all separately said that three young rural women from the Sunni Muslim region of Al-Anbar, west of Baghdad, had been killed by their families after coming out of Abu Ghraib pregnant.

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[Submariner]

1. "BUSH RAPE ROOMS"

This sure is a busy news day in Bush country.

[Eloriel]

2. Being raped is quite bad enough, but in Iraq it's a death sentence

This quote steams me:

Human rights groups point out that in a conservative society like Iraq women feel that rape dishonours their whole family.

Yah, like it's the women's idea that being raped brings dishonor on the family. That is a patriarchal society's misogynist attitude arising from the belief that men have the right to own and control women's sexuality (and therefore virginity or chastity). Women didn't dream up those fucked up rules and beliefs.