"I was told to stand and someone said fetch the buckets of cold water. I was ordered to undress. I hesitated. They came and undressed me and poured cold water over my head and body. They said talk you whore I'll fuck you right now if you do not talk. Then another bucket of cold water was used. I shook and cried out. He said put your hand out. I put my right hand out. He shouted both of them. He hit my hands with a rubber club and screamed, talk, soon thereafter I could not feel my hands any more because he had hit them so often. I was told to get dressed ... I had to sit in the chair again and the questions began again from in front of me ... He asked me if I knew the national anthem and birth dates of Ataturk. I replied no. They said I was lost because I had no national identity. They said I would turn myself into a German. They cursed me as a traitor... I was led into another room. Get undressed! Shaking, I undressed and they tied cloth around my wrists and attached very tight handcuffs to them. The handcuffs were fastened to the wall so I hung from the wall with my arms stretched out to either side, with the tips of my toes just touching the floor but not my heels. They turned on very loud European pop music, saying this should make me feel at home ... Because of the pain I could no longer concentrate on their questions. I did not answer. They hit me but I did not feel the pain any more. I felt death to be near..." (ibid)
During the Turkish invasion of Cyprus (launched on July 20, 1974) Turkish soldiers raped over 1000 Greek Cypriot Women. The invasion was rife with horrible human rights abuses.
West Papua, containing the provinces of Papua and West Papua, and is not part of Papua New Guinea have suffered immensely from the Indonesian occupation beginning in 1963. The Papuans have had to endure brutality by racist Indonesian soldiers. The Papuan natives are not regarded as humans.
West Papua's natural resources have been exploited and utilized, bringing in outstanding profits for the Indonesian Government and international corporations, all to the disadvantage of the native West Papuans.
In subduing the West Papuans the Indonesian Military has used unlawful killings, arbitrary arrests, torture and rape, and brutality during protests.
Papua New Guinea has a rampant rape problem in its society.
Women, pre-pubescent, and sometimes elderly women run the risk of being assaulted, tortured, and/or raped by individuals or in worse case scenarios by drunken men or boys and men.
According to American researcher Shirley Oliver-Miller, "To most young Papua New Guinean women today, a man with money, a car, or even a schoolboy with promise, is a far more attractive prospect than a poor boy with no obvious future. For many young men, having no money with which to buy sex directly, or simply with which to make a girlfriend happy, is a frustrating state of affairs ... Some men state that there is no opportunity for them to have sex at all, unless they rape a woman. Group rape is less likely to lead to trouble than individual rape, although most men who state they rape women do both." (By Alfredo P. Hernandez, March 6, 2009, Malum Nalu Blogspot: The Rape of Papua New Guinean Women)
A 32 year-old American academic was gang-raped by an armed mob in Papua New Guinea. The victim, her husband, and a guide were ambushed by 9 men who were armed with rifles and knives.
The victim was stripped hands bound, and they cut her hair to the scalp on the back. She was gang-raped for 20 minutes.
Later, the victims were able to escape.
This horrible attack came only a week following an attack involving an Australian man who was killed and his female friend was raped by a group of men.
The 32 year-old gang-raped victim said, "This story should not come out because I am white ... It should come out in hopes that it empowers Papua New Guinean women to stand up and say no more violence against women in this country." .(By Barney Henderson, April 21, 2013; The Telegraph UK: US Academic Describes Gang- Rape in Papua New Guinea)
The victim was on her fifth visit to Papua New Guinea since 2010, during which she was conducting research on birds and the impact of climate change.
"This kind of behaviour totally undermines our efforts to make our country a safe destination for investment and tourists... We cannot allow the entire nation to suffer because of the behaviour of one or two sick people," said Peter O'Neill Papua New Guineas Prime Minister. (ibid)
During the recent civil war in Libya, hundreds of Libyan women had the courage to come out and admit that