Women: In Collapse, Be Ready to Use Lethal Force

January 6th, 2011

If you already understand this issue, you don’t need to subject yourself to the following article. But if you don’t, know that where you are right now could become the next Haiti.

Via: AFP:

An Amnesty report laid bare Wednesday horrific accounts of rape in Haiti’s squalid refugee camps a year after a devastating quake left many struggling to rebuild their shattered lives.

They are women like Guerline, who two months after losing her husband when their home crumbled to the ground in the devastating quake, had to watch as her teenage daughter was raped in a makeshift tarpaulin camp in Port-au-Prince.

“Four men raped her. She is 13 years old,” Guerline told Amnesty International researchers, who compiled the report after interviewing more than 50 women and girls in Haiti’s post-quake camps.

“They told me that if I talked about it, they would kill me. They said that if I went to the police, they would shoot me dead.

“I’m scared. There is nowhere safe where I can live, so I had to keep quiet,” said Guerline, who, like all the women interviewed for the report, was given a false name to protect her from reprisals.

Guerline was raped on the same night as her daughter by hooded men in the tent city. She can’t get the events of that terrible night out of her head.

Amnesty said little is being done to help her and other victims of rape and sexual violence, old woes for Haiti that worsened after the earthquake killed over 230,000 people, injured 300,000 others and flattened large tracts of the capital.

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One Response to “Women: In Collapse, Be Ready to Use Lethal Force”

  1. Eileen says:
    January 7, 2011 at 4:53 am

    What is with men that when they are in times of trouble they attack women with their, hmm, lust?
    I’m hungry, I’m starving, I have nothing left, so geez fellows, lets go out and get us some. How about a gang rape tonight?
    Yessiree Kevin. I met a fellow in yoga who has three black belts. I think its time women “man up” and learn to well, er, hurt those that think the best thing to do to a man or a woman who is living in very troubled times is to rape them.
    Lethal force indeed.
    Why I oughta…get some surgical instruments. And that’s putting my thoughts out “nicely.”

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