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- From: ghbr@fmg.bt.co.uk (Hossein Bagherzadeh Rafsanjani)
- Newsgroups: alt.activism.d
- Subject: Re: Rape in war: enforcing power
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.111737.4361@fmg.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 11:17:37 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.091510.2377@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.activism.d
- Organization: British Telecom
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- In-Reply-To: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu's message of 22 Jan 93 09:15:10 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.091510.2377@mont.cs.missouri.edu> rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) writes:
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- Third, the rape frequently ends with the murder of the woman.
- Sometimes it is hard to know if the rape or the murder was the first
- motive; the two are so tangled together. Yayori Matsui of the Asian
- Women's Network notes that when the Iranian army took captives
- during the war with Iraq, the women were routinely raped before
- they were killed because "if they died as virgins they might go to
- heaven."
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- Actually, the story relates to the murder of political prisoners. In
- early eighties scores of teenage girls were arrested and sumamrily
- executed in Iran. Then it was alleged that the guards would rape the
- girls first because "if they died as virgins they might go to heaven."
- But it might have also happened during the war.
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- -hossein
-