From: imustafa@slate.mines.colorado.edu (MUSTAFA IBRAHIM )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: Rapes in Bosnia-Bangladesh-Burma-India-elsewhere
Date: 10 Jan 93 06:28:47 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

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


This is not a time to deliver unnecessary lecture on how we can have a
a law to stop raping. It is a time to help bosnian muslims, to provide them
weapons so that they can protect the remaining muslim women from rape.    
   
 Dont say that where were you when bengali women were being raped by the 
punjabi army. This nonsense propaganda was prevailed by Mujeeb who is 
already in Paradise (by not natural death off course ).

            
 
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