The Partizan Hall, located in the center of a small village named Foca, was used as a special rape camp for two consecutive summer months in 1992. Dozens of women were routinely raped and gang-raped by Serbian soldiers, without mercy.
During the war dozens of rape camps were used throughout Bosnia. The Partizan Hall rape camp was located beside the local police station; complaints and pleadings were ignored. This was a horrific civil war.
But beside the rape centers there were countless other rapes conducted by Serb soldiers and paramilitary groups.
The victims of these rapes who are still alive are still suffering from the effects, no doubt.
During the Armenian Genocide (1915-1917), a plan by the Turkish Authorities to exterminate and expel the Armenian population within its borders was implemented.
Between 1 and 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered outright, died of starvation or exhaustion, torture or from the elements (deportation, long treacherous treks).
Many thousands of women were brutally raped and gang-raped.
Within many of these rapes were horrific acts of torture and mutilation.
During the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, mass slaughter, plundering and ransacking and rape were rampant. Rapists included members of the military, paramilitary and individuals out for revenge.
U.N. Special Representative Margot Wallstrom once referred to Eastern Congo as ‘the rape capital of the world’, where it was estimated that 48 women were being raped every hour.
Throughout this conflict many of the victims were raped for being on the wrong side, living in the wrong village or being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Any excuse to rape. And as with other acts of mass terror-rape being too young or too old is no guarantee of safety.
But this land had endured mass terror-rape earlier in the 20th century. Belgian soldiers ‘did’ many Congolese women. There were also instances of young Congolese men being forced to have sex with their mothers, at gunpoint of course.
During the brutal civil war in Sudan, in particular Darfur and the surrounding regions horrible slaughters, tortures, expulsions, starvation and deprivations and intimidation of countless peoples was a normal occurrence.
However, in addition to the horrors of the Sudan civil war there were countless rapes and gang-rapes of women, some young and others old.
The Janjaweed, a so-called Arab militia, used mass rapes and gang-rapes as one of their methods of punishing, terrifying and controlling their enemies. The raped women were non- combatants, innocent of any wrongdoing.
One of the common methods of the Janjaweed was to enter a village, well-armed and sometimes on horseback, separate the men from the women and begin their work.
Many men were slaughtered. The prettiest women were further separated from the other women. Being pregnant was no defense either.
The rapes occurred in secluded places, in public and sometimes in refugee camps. Victims have reported that the rapists enjoyed themselves during the act, laughing and singing away. In addition, the rapists would taunt the victims. A common taunt was ‘slave’. The cries of the victims were ignored.
Many rape victims in Sudan, both Arab and African have a hesitant attitude regarding conveying their stories.
Birth control devices and pills weren’t easily accessible. Furthermore, STDs and the shock of giving birth to an innocent baby resulting from a rape are traumatizing. The mere act at looking at her child is a reminder of what’d happened.
Married rape victims could expect to be divorced by their husbands. Single rape victims could expect to be off limits to men.
Most of the literature in the news pertaining to the horrific was in Sudan condemns the Arab government and combatants. Looking at the whole picture, the conspiracy was to carve a piece off of Sudan, once the largest Arab country which happens to be predominately Muslim. The people pulling the strings couldn’t care less about the Arab or African peoples in Sudan, the combatants or the victims. Since when does the western world care about blacks in Africa? For them, there’s no difference between a black Arab and a black non-Arab.
It’s beyond the scope of this to go into detail about the colonialist aspirations in the Sudan and the rest of Africa.
Rape has become a rampant problem for women and also children in South Africa. It’s so bad some experts refer to this situation as ‘a war against South African women’.
South African women have a 25 percent chance of being raped prior to turning 16. In addition, marital violence and child abuse is common.
Although the South African public is more attuned to the rape problem in their country most rapes and attempted rapes are not reported. Understandably, better policing and stiffer penalties haven’t put a dent on this problem.
Since South Africa’s independence the rate of child abuse incidents has risen several hundred percent. There are even cases of baby rape; a preposterous belief amongst many men in Southern Africa regards having sex with a baby a cure for HIV and AIDS. Where this preposterous belief originated, I’d surely like to know.
Many rapists in South Africa truly believe that they have an inherent right to have sex with women and that raping them isn’t wrong.
South Africa’s Deputy President, Jacob Zuma blames apartheid for ‘sowing the seeds for the breakdown of the institution of the family’.
In addition, there has been a recent, significant rise in rapes of lesbians in South Africa. The belief is ‘this act will cure you of your lesbianism’. In addition, brutal attacks and murders of lesbians have been on the rise. These crimes for the most part are not publicized and aren’t punished.
A case in point involves Eudy Simelane, a former star/athlete of South Africa’s national female football league.
She was open about her lifestyle; her life ended in a brutal gang-rape, a beating and being stabbed a total of 25 times in the face, chest and legs.
I don’t support gay or lesbian lifestyles or actions in any way, shape or form. However, the brutal rapes, beatings and murders of people by raving lunatics are a grave danger to any society; they’re acting as judge, juror, executioner and moral police.
During the Second World War the Japanese Military used 200,000 (some estimates are high