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- Subject: Sri Lanka : In the International TV.....
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 11:05:28 GMT
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- Sri Lanka was again in the National TV, perhaps, in the International
- TV. CNN's Sonya Life (January 26, 1993), with the headline Rape & War
- iscussed some current international issues. The guests were, Jeri
- Laber, Helsinki Watch; Marjory Byler, Amnesty International; Rhonda
- Copelon, CUNY Law Professor; Judy Darnell, Registered Nurse; and
- Linda Fairstein, NYC Sex Crimes Prosecutor
-
- ===
- Highlight:
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- The atrocities of the war in Bosnia with Serbian soldiers
- raping women as a weapon of war is discussed by concerned women who
- have seen firsthand the results of this tactic.
-
- Sonya: I'm Sonya Friedman. The invading soldiers to show their power
- over the enemy and to humiliate him, rape the enemy's women. It's
- happening today in Bosnia, and it's my subject on Sonya Live, today.
- Rape as a weapon of war.
- :
- :
-
- Sonya: We know that there are rape camps. I mean, it is suggested
- that women are kept in these camps, in many cases, until they become
- pregnant. One then, has to be clear about the fact that all kinds of
- military officers at varieties of levels have to also be aware of
- those camps. What does that say?
- :
- :
-
- Sonya: Also joining us today are Marjory Byler, who is from the
- Amnesty International, which detailed worldwide and systematic rape
- in Bosnia in a report that was released last week, and Rhonda
- Copelon, who is co-director of the International Women's Human
- Rights Clinic, a project of the City University of New York Law
- School.
-
- [interviewing] Now, rape is something that has always been with us,
- Marjory. I am interested in knowing, is it being selected out in
- this case because it is felt to be so much worse, and what has
- really been known throughout history when there's war?
-
- Marjory Byler, Amnesty International: Well, I think we have access
- to information in this case that does give us a sense of the massive
- systematic use of rape in Bosnia and in other areas in former Yugo-
- slavia. But Amnesty International certainly has been documenting the
- use of rape in other parts of the world for many years. And whether
- or not we have more information here because the access to the infor-
- mation - It's a European country. It's not that far for some people
- to get to, compared, for example, to rural Beirut where it might be
- more difficult or somewhere in Sri Lanka or India or Bangladesh.
- That's a question we could ask ourselves. But, certainly, the syste-
- matic use of rape in this case is probably not unique in other
- situations of armed conflict.
-
- Sonya: Indeed, Rhonda, as I hear this, and the word 'systematic' now
- was used twice by Marjory, and I think that the suggestion is clear
- there from Jeri. Once again, we are asking, is this a tacit strategy
- in order to produce the goals of war? Very quickly, I mean, the pur-
- pose of war is to subdue the will of another over the people, take
- their territory, and then become the master. And in a way, isn't
- that achieving those goals?
-
- ==
-
- Well, Sri Lanka was specificall targetted here. However, it is not
- very pleasing to hear "Sri Lanka" in this kinds of discussions.
-
-
- Vicky:
- UMass, Jan 28
-