A Double Ordeal for Iraqi Women

[Scairp]

Didn't see this story posted yet, so here it is.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- One woman told her attorney she was forced to disrobe in front of male prison guards. After much coaxing, another woman described how she was raped by U.S. soldiers. Then she fainted.

A U.S. Army report on abuses at Abu Ghraib prison documented one case of an American guard sexually abusing a female detainee, and a Pentagon spokesman said Monday that 1,200 unreleased images of abuse at Abu Ghraib included "inappropriate behavior of a sexual nature."

Whether it was one or numerous cases of rape, many Iraqis believe that sexual abuse of women in U.S.-run jails was rampant. As a result, female prisoners face grave prospects after they are released: denial, ostracism or even death.

A woman who is raped brings shame on her family in the Islamic world. In many cases, rape victims have been killed by their relatives to salvage family honor, although there is no evidence this is happening to former prisoners in Iraq.

"It is like being sentenced to death," said Sheik Mohammed Bashar Faydhi, a senior cleric based at Baghdad's largest Sunni mosque.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-stigma11may11,1,6627518.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Wasn't rape classified as a war crime after what happened in the former Yugoslavia? And weren't certain Serbs tried for this particular war crime against Muslim women? Just checking.

[TahitiNut]

1. Rape affirmed as war crime (genocide!) by UN's ICTR in 1998

http://www.hrw.org/press98/sept/rrape902.htm

[bobbieinok]

2. MS magazine reported Serbs filmed gang rapes of Bosnian (Muslim)

women and sold them as porno films in the recently freed from USSR countries in central Europe.

[izzie]

3. It is not going to be such a shock if you lived during the Civil Rights.

I found the papers filled with things going on in the Civil Rights days as really hard to believe. But I guess since I lived a long live I have heard of most every thing by now.With out rules, people will do any thing to people they have in their power. It just seems to be a sickness some people have inside them.Our 'rulers' seem to have lost their way but you must recall we put a lot of Japanese in prisons during WW2 and took their property but not the Germans. Would we have sent police with dogs after white kids going to school? Read all over this PC and you will see the people in power do not look at the Middle East people as "good' like you. Even Our President tells us they are evil.And he makes it as if any one not with him is evil. Evil people do not have to be treated as the good are. Many men see this, but women my age, grew up with it, a second place person by law . Almost as bad a Am Indians and black people. It is a mind set you grew up with.