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- From: dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning)
- Newsgroups: alt.activism
- Subject: Re: Rape After Rape After Rape
- Message-ID: <BznnMJ.GLA@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 09:56:43 GMT
- References: <2097.2b2f8fba@mbcl.rutgers.edu> <1296500460@igc.apc.org> <BzKFx8.C4C@demon.co.uk>
- Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.
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- gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
-
- >In article <1296500460@igc.apc.org> pnmideast@igc.apc.org writes:
- >:Listen guys,
- >:When I first heard about the rapes I was skeptical too. But
- >:when I saw reports ie.below, I started to rethink.
- >:
- >:---
- >:The stream of survivor testimonies which we came across, together with
- >:the work of other organisations throughout Croatia and information
- >:gathered in refugee camps throughout Europe, prompted our investigation
- >:into the systematic sexual atrocities being committed against women in
-
- >The reporting on British TV hasn't been able to find a single first-hand
- >witness. Plenty of second-hand witnesses. There are two explanations
- >of this. 1) The Moslem women who have been raped cannot bring themselves
- >to admit it, for obvious reasons; 2) the stories of rape-camps are a
- >combination of either deliberate psychological warfare, or the sort of
- >urban-myth style rumours that always fly around war zones (a well known
- >dynamic to historians - cf the Crimea, WWI)
-
- >At the moment it's impossible to tell either way, until first-hand evidence
- >on a significant scale turns up (ie more than two or three cases).
-
- Is the Red Cross/Crescent or the World Council of Churches significant enough?
-
- ..and yes Graham, there HAS been a first hand witness on British TV, a Serbian
- soldier captured by the Bosnians and, as these are likely to be the only
- first hand witnesses you're likely to get to this sort of crime, you can either
- accept what he says, or dismiss it and go look for other accounts. In the
- case of the latter, you can ask the victims or those treating the victims.
- In the main the information has come from those treating the victims together
- with one or two victims themselves. The victims have been interviewed on
- BBC Radio 4 on a number of occasions.
- Where else do you expect to get the confirmation from. The Serbian soldiers
- are hardly likely to walk in front of a TV camera and say "Hey, we went on
- a raping spree last night amongst the Muslim women" are they?..and they're
- the only first-hand witnesses they'll be.
- The WCC has returned from Bosnia and their report is out today. It's yet
- another of a multitude of reports confirming the systematic rape of Bosnian
- Muslim women by Serbian troops.
-
- Dave
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