From: shamshoo@shelley.u.washington.edu (Shams Hasan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: Rapes in Bosnia-Bangladesh-Burma-India-elsewhere
Date: 9 Jan 1993 19:47:40 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: shelley.u.washington.edu
Summary: More uses than one in Bangladesh and India.....
Keywords: Hang loose on the Caboose !

In article <C0LKCr.F3n@news.udel.edu> khaleq@brahms.udel.edu (Mohame Khalequzzaman) writes:
>Yesterday's News Journal, a daily news paper of Delaware, reported the
>horrifying story on 20,000 rape victims in Bosnia by Serbian soldiers.
>The UN officials have come with this minimal number after interviewing the
>rape victims in bordering refugee camps only; they couldn't go inside Bosnia
>because the situation didn't permit them to go inside.  It is obvious that the
>number of rape victims is much much higher.  For the similar reason, the number
>of rape victims in Bangladesh during our Liberation War is now believed to be
>200,000.  A recent report in Probahi, a Bengali news weekly published from NY,
>claimed that at least 200 Hindu women were raped by Muslim fundamentalists in
>Bangladesh following the Ayodhya event.  There are conclusive evidence that
>some Chakma women were raped by Bengali soldiers and settlers in recent years.
>Kashmiri people claimed in many occasions that Indian law enforcing agents and
>military had rapes numerous women.  Similar claims come from shieks against
>Indian Army.  One can argue with the number of victims, but the truth remains ththat such an atrocity has been committed against women in all those countries
>and elsewhere.
>
>Rape is the MOST horrifying crime against women.  Rape is like a double sword
>for women.  First, once any woman is subject to such crime she feels that she
>has lost the most valuable in her and she feels a void deep inside.  Then, once
>the war is over she can't or doesn't get the recognition or fame for sacrificingthe most valuable possesion she had for the cause what the war was faught for.
>The rape victims are hardly recognized or valued as war heroine in a society 
>once the war is over.  That's what had happened in Bangladesh at least and I
>believe the same would be true for other male dominated societies.  When a
>male lose his body organ in such a war he is considered and admired as a war
>hero.  People salute his sacrifice.  Is it ever the case with a female victim
>who loses the most valuable asset in her life.  To the contrary, she is rebuked
>in the family and society.  The people throw an oblique look on them.  What
>a shame for us!
>
>What I personnaly think we should do is to come up with a law (I am sure there
>would have been such law already should such atrocities were committed against
>males during a war) that will suggest CHOPPING OFF THE MALE ORGAN of the person
>proven guilty for committing rape during a war or even during peace time.  There
>are many more brutal punishments executed in all societies (such as hanging to 
>death etc).  This execusion will let the criminal live his ordinary life while
>feeling a complete void deep inside for the rest of his life - just the way
>a rape victim feels.
>
>Khaleq

Dear Khaleq,

It is shameful and barbaric and should be severely punished.

But, take a look at Bangladesh and India. I agree your personal recommendation
of ******************************, which would provide the ultimate solution
to what Sanjay Gandhi could not find in his search for a cure for the pop.
explosion in India. 

Sadly he died for nothing. I wish that if Sanjay was alive today, he would be
someone you should immediatly get in touch with and begin implementation rather
than just send a tirade on the net.

Best Regards,
Shams Hasan.