All countries have rapes, of course. But here in the refugee shantytowns of Darfur, the horrific stories that young women whisper are not of random criminality but of a systematic campaign of rape to terrorize civilians and drive them from "Arab lands" - a policy of rape.
One measure of the international community's hypocrisy is that the world is barely bothering to protest. More than two years after the genocide in Darfur began, the women of Kalma Camp - a teeming squatters' camp of 110,000 people driven from their burned villages - still face the risk of gang rape every single day as they go out looking for firewood.
(International Herald-Tribune)
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Nicholas D. Kristof: Sudan's policy of systematic rape
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That is another sad story about what goes on in this world still today,actually that is horrible,my heart goes out to those woman who are victims,when is something going to be done so they can live peacefully? and the poor men who were killed!!!! come on people let's get together and a find a way!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When George Bush speaks of freedom around the world I guess he speaks of only the countries that he can either extract goods and valuable and natural resources such as oil because afterall the people without oil and wealth are of no use to our President and vice President because make money with the poor,unless they have them working in some slave shop for some wealthy corporations and businesses,someday all this evil and greed will come back to W and Dick Halliburton too fold.Why can't the people of this country band together and demand that something be done in these lawless countries,other than Iraq.T.A.
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