From: dpereira@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: Rapes in Bosnia-Bangladesh-Burma-India
Date: 9 Jan 93 13:36:32 EST
Organization: Univ of Miami IR

In article <C0LKCr.F3n@news.udel.edu>, khaleq@brahms.udel.edu (Mohame Khalequzzaman) writes:

I'm just curious - are you from Saudi Arabia?  "Chopping the male organ off.."
"...rape means...losing her most valuable asset..."  Where do you come up with
this stuff??!

> 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
> 
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