UN classifies rape a 'war tactic' »
Posted By SunnyDays 3 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsThe UN Security Council has voted unanimously in favour of a resolution classifying rape as a weapon of war.
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Natureboy3 months, 3 weeks ago
We like to think of it as what the other guy does. Ever hear of the Phoenix Program? U.S. operated, in Vietnam. Tactics used on their (our) victims included "rape, gang rape, rape using eels, snakes, or hard objects, and rape followed by murder; electrical shock ("the Bell Telephone Hour") rendered by attaching wires to the genitals or other sensitive parts of the body, like the tongue; "the water treatment"; "the airplane," in which a prisoner's arms were tied behind the back and the rope looped over a hook on the ceiling, suspending the prisoner in midair, after which he or she was beaten; beatings with rubber hoses and whips; and the use of police dogs to maul prisoners."
http://everything2.com/node/1538103
The mindset persists. Read this -
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0419,turse,533...
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thoughtforsale3 months, 3 weeks ago
I wonder if this resolution will help very much, but it was quite necessary to no longer close the eyes concerning this horrible crime. Women and children are often the first victims of war. In many countries, they have no rights and nobody cares about them. Declaring rape as a weapon of war might also make it easier to sanctionate it as a crime of war. Perhaps, this decision of the UN can help making the public more sensitive for this theme and finally lead into actions. There are many groups fighting for human rights in general or focussing the rights of women. They will have to do the harder job: translating this resolution into practice!
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neohk3 months, 3 weeks ago
What I concern is the nomenclature. The term war tactic makes the raping sound like a way to win a battle or a method to gain benefits.
I don't think classifying rape as a tactic can help.Genocide isn't necessary to be tactic and it's still a crime of war.
I will be happy if someone can prove me right or wrong.
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memestryker3 months, 3 weeks ago
Due to the culture, since stereotypical roles are very important, it is a way of both destroying the women physically and the men psychologically, so the families break down and the men give up.
The people have been disarmed and so armed attackers easily come and take over villages.
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globalwarmer3 months, 3 weeks ago
We can't keep our own troops from raping OUR OWN troops, how the hell are we supposed to stop the enemy from raping civilians?
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memestryker3 months, 3 weeks ago
nikkibabe, that is hateful and disgusting. Yes, there will always be a percentage of any group of people who are sociopaths, but the vast majority of people are not. And of course, you're feeding on what the media likes to exploit. But the fact is, most soldiers are focused on doing a job so they can get home to those they love--and they are not committing crimes. Whether you agree with the war or not doesn't give you the right to vilify innocent people.
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SAAB76993 months, 3 weeks ago
I understand your sarcasm.It is not thinly veiled enough,however.
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PsychoHosebeast3 months, 3 weeks ago
Apparently you haven't noticed that it's always existed, but it's always been that dirty little secret. This now brings it into the spotlight, along with torture and mutilation.
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coolrayfruge3 months, 3 weeks ago
Rape is a Crime.
War is not a excuse for such a action.
Leave it to these Sobs to justify it as a weapon of war.
Like they do every other crime committed against humanity.
Like Extortion.,Bribery, loansharking, robbing people of their property and land.
And that's not just during War.
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memestryker3 months, 3 weeks ago
The U.N. is not justifying it. They are acknowledging it, finally. They were treating it as a street crime. Now they are acknowledging it is being used as a war tactic.
People in the region have been asking them to acknowledge it as such for a long time. And this is not just sex--this is violence that leaves some women paralyzed, crippled, etc.
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PsychoHosebeast3 months, 3 weeks ago
I'm afraid I need you to quote the exact sentence where they justify it, please...
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memestryker3 months, 3 weeks ago
In some villages, 90% of women have been raped because they have no weapons to fight off their attackers.
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DKMontoya3 months, 3 weeks ago
Well, let's see---Abortion was proclaimed NOT killing a baby. Homosexual marriage is proclaimed NOT an abomination to natural law. NOW, rape is a war tactic and NOT a criminal violent act.
I imagine we will see things like this in the law books:
MURDER - Rectroactive abortion - NOT illegal
RAPE - Forced physical appropriation of dignity and civil rights- NOT illegal.
THEFT - Necessary appropriation of goods for the maintenance of quality of life. NOT illegal.
I believe the imates are running the institution.
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memestryker3 months, 3 weeks ago
This is not about sex. This vicious rape includes violence that leaves women disfigured and with internal injuries, permanently on colostomy or external incontinence devices, even loss of limbs.
And because they have an ancient culture with rigid gender stereotypes, the men are made to feel helpless watching those they love be tortured and mutilated because the ordinary citizens have been disarmed while the attackers have all sorts of weapons.
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Dicax_Maximus3 months, 3 weeks ago
So, the mighty Useless Ningcompoops have decided it's a war crime & it could threaten international stability...
So, let me guess, there'll be a whole load of meetings, extensive visits by large teams of UN monitors, massive reports, endless debates and finally.......
They'll do exactly what they've done in Dhafur.....
NOTHING.....
This is a meaningless resolution, just so much hot air, unless / until the UN "peacekeepers" stop acting like 6 year old school milk-monitors and start acting like a professional, modern, well equipped AND AUTHORISED TO USE FORCE, army !!!
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Dicax_Maximus3 months, 3 weeks ago
Like Dhafur ???
Where are the hundred thousand plus UN troops stopping the genocide (accepted as occuring by the UN), the raping, the mass evictions, the deplacements ???
But it's all going to be OK cos the UN has called it a "crime".... Somehow, I think that the several hundred thousand people ALREADY affected, may just disagree with your hopes for anything run by the UN......
Sad to say....
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yankeebabe3 months, 3 weeks ago
"The BBC's Laura Trevelyan said China, Russia, Indonesia and Vietnam had all expressed reservations during the negotiations, asking whether rape was really a matter for the security council."
Are you kidding me??? Expressed reservation??? RAPE IS A CRIME!
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mrbs3 months, 3 weeks ago
i think when bill started the practice of integrating women into front line positions and aboard ship the generals said that would happen but those on the left said no no your paranoid....hmm..seems like the generals were right.time to pull women out of all front line post and off the ships.
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PsychoHosebeast3 months, 3 weeks ago
So, setting off bombs on buses, schools and markets is OK, torturing is OK, shooting a family of people because they witnessed a crime is OK...
But you draw the line at rape? Is that what you're telling us?
And since you apparently didn't notice, the UN didn't encourage it, they acknowledged that it's happening... just as it has happened in every war through the centuries. Not nice, but neither is killing, maiming, and disfiguring people. Be disgusted by that.
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neohk3 months, 3 weeks ago
As it's called a tactic, it sounds more righteous to me. However, since when raping is righteous?
In most religions that I know, it's a sin.
In most laws that I know, it's illegal.
War can't be the excuse of criminals. As far as I recall, there is a term called War Criminals and there is a court in The Hague for scum like that.
Unless the UN dare to say, countries with army can do whatever they want. Then we can move back to a barbarian world. Cheers!
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PsychoHosebeast3 months, 3 weeks ago
Yeah, by God, how dare they acknowledge that it is going on, we wouldn't want that, would we? They should've kept their mouths shut so idiots could keep insisting that it doesn't happen--especially by 'Merkins, by God, none of our soldiers would do that would they...? Oh, wait, I read a new story about a GI raping a local about every two weeks (only when they get caught), sometimes in places we aren't even fighting, like Japan. Never mind.
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unome23 months, 3 weeks ago
Rape and war have always been united in their complete lack of humanity.
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