Rape in Liberia

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2003-08-10 05:25am

From this article:

Every time fighting surges in Liberia, women are raped, aid workers say. But this time, the scale is incalculable. Wild-eyed men are going door to door, ransacking homes, beating and killing people, and raping any women -- or girls -- they find.

Then government fighters pounded at the gate.

A young man smashed Rebecca's head with a hammer and tore off her clothes, while her 10-year-old clung to her, crying "Mommy! Mommy!" When the man realized Rebecca was menstruating, he kicked her.

Another fighter, who called himself Black Dog, ripped the child from her mother and threw her to the floor.

"When he got through with her, I saw blood, I saw vomit, I saw toilet," Rebecca says, moaning rhythmically. "He raped her to death."

As her daughter lay on the floor, another man grabbed the 14-year-old and raped her, too.

"He was holding me," whispers the child, sitting bolt upright, knees pressed together and hands twisting in her lap. "I was fighting, kicking him."

As for Rebecca, the fighters stripped her house and even took the family album. Rebecca has only one picture left of her daughter, taken when she was 11 months old -- a solemn child with bright bows in her hair, standing unsteadily with the help of a piece of furniture.

Falling to her knees, Rebecca sobs: "Just kill me. I want to die."

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-08-10 12:58pm

Disgusting... what a sad irony that a state founded on a love of liberty ended as such a hellhole.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-08-10 01:17pm

Every place where there was a war retards rape women to show how strong they are.

Dark Hellion · Post by **Dark Hellion** » 2003-08-10 01:58pm

Remind me again why we don't nuke that whole fucking continent, wait 10 years and then start resettlement. The fuckholes living there now do far worse.

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2003-08-10 02:53pm

Because of nuclear fall-out getting past the continent, and all the innocent and cool wildlife there that would be wiped out.

However, I go think it might be adviseable to perform saturation bombing with conventional warheads, and then perform sweeps where if "he's" not in a proper uniform, it get's shot, looted, and left there to rot and feed the wild life

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-08-10 03:26pm

Dark Hellion wrote:Remind me again why we don't nuke that whole fucking continent, wait 10 years and then start resettlement. The fuckholes living there now do far worse.

Well, there are probably a few hundred thousand conpletely innocent men, women and children there, so that might be one reason...

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-08-10 04:24pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:Disgusting... what a sad irony that a state founded on a love of liberty ended as such a hellhole.

Because of a shithead dictator, who's been going from country to country starting revolts, who should have died of anal hemmoraging years ago...

otter · Post by **otter** » 2003-08-10 07:37pm

Reminds me of the sickening story out of South Africa not to long ago where they think raping INFANTS will cure HIV/AIDS!!!!

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-08-11 09:53am

otter wrote:Reminds me of the sickening story out of South Africa not to long ago where they think raping INFANTS will cure HIV/AIDS!!!!

I think we're veering off topic...

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-08-11 12:51pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:I think we're veering off topic...

If you insist.