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On 3/12/13, Bukan Pedanda <[email protected]> wrote: > > FYI > > [CNN] > > Rape is shredding Syria's social fabric > By Lauren Wolfe , Special to CNN > December 5, 2012 -- Updated 2302 GMT (0702 HKT) > > CNN.com > > > Editor's note: Lauren Wolfe is an award-winning journalist and the director > of Women Under Siege, a Women's Media Center initiative on sexualized > violence in conflict. The group's site features a real-time interactive map > on reports of rape in Syria. Wolfe is the former senior editor of the > Committee to Protect Journalists, and blogs at laurenmwolfe.com. Follow her > on Twitter, @Wolfe321. > > (CNN) -- A woman approached me as I was rushing toward the D.C. Metro after > giving a talk on rape in Syria last month. She asked in a low voice if she > could share some information. She had DVDs, she said. On them were > testimonies of Syrian women who'd been raped; in particular, a mother, a > daughter and a sister all in one family. > > In a taxi recently en route to Heathrow Airport, I was told another > startling story. The driver turned to me and said, "I am Syrian. And I have > a story to tell you that I keep wishing is not true." > > His eyes welled up as he relayed what his neighbor said happened to a > friend. The neighbor described being stopped in his car at a Syrian > checkpoint on the road from Zabadani to Damascus. He said army officers told > him to leave his daughter with them. My driver said he knew no other details > than this, that the man had been given a horrific choice to make: leave his > daughter behind, or his wife and other children would be killed in front of > his eyes. > > The man made a decision, the driver said. He left his daughter at the > checkpoint and drove on. > > I keep wishing it is not true, too, but what I told the driver that day is > that his story sounds all too familiar: Of the hundreds of cases of > sexualized violence against Syrian women and men I have heard and documented > as the director of the Women Under Siege project at the Women's Media > Center, many fit this pattern of women and girls being raped at > checkpoints. > > Read more: Syrian family hides from attacks in underground 'prison' > > And the story from the woman in Washington falls all too neatly into the > pattern of ripping apart families -- rape and other forms of sexualized > violence have long been used as a tool of war to destroy not only individual > bodies but entire communities. What is happening in Syria is no exception. > > In an attempt to not lose a single story that could be used as possible > evidence for future war crimes trials, we are documenting reports of > sexualized violence on a live, crowd-sourced map on Syria. We know, however, > that evidence of crimes is being destroyed every day: More than 20% of the > women in our reports are found dead or are killed after rape. > > Broken down by type of crime and perpetrator, each case is marked as a red > dot on the map and contains up to dozens or even hundreds of victims. Each > dot is a life or lives potentially ripped apart by a horrific act of > violence, an act that is particularly powerful as a weapon in Syria, where > honor is so highly prized. > No defenses against chemical weapons > Mortar strikes school in refugee camp > Aleppo power out, rubble everywhere > > Rape is tearing Syrians apart. The concept of purity is destroying their > lives on top of it. > > The International Rescue Committee, referring to Syria, reported in August > that "girl-child survivors of rape are frequently married to their older > cousins or other male members of the community, to 'save their honor.' " > Participants in adolescent girl groups told the IRC that if a girl is raped, > "Sometimes she might be killed by her family. She might kill herself. ... > She knows that she will be dishonored for the rest of her life." > > Honor killings, forced marriages and divorce are just a few of the ways > shame is destroying lives in Syria. There is also suicide when the shame > becomes too much to bear, such as the story on our map telling of a girl in > Latakia who reportedly killed herself by jumping off a balcony after rape. > > But the concept of honor is failing Syrian women in another way. > > Read more: NATO stands with Turkey as Syrian violence spills over borders > > "What I always think about is how women have tried to persuade the > perpetrators not to attack them by asking to think of them as their > sisters," said one of the Syrian researchers on our mapping project. > > "In Arab culture, a real man will protect his sister at any price. He is > expected to take revenge if someone dishonors her. His sister is his > responsibility even if she is married because blood relation is stronger > than marriage. The women were appealing to whatever remnant of manhood and > Arab honor these attackers might still have. Unfortunately, they had none." > > The unending "dishonor" and manipulation of Syrians through sexualized > violence is committed by all sides, although the majority of our reports > indicate government perpetrators. It is creating an entire nation of > traumatized people: not just the survivors of the acts, but their children > as well. > > It is time to stop it all. There are measures the world can take to bring > these horrors to an end. Shame should never fall on victims, but should be > used to compel Russia to join a U.N. Security Council call for the Syrian > government's alleged crimes to be referred to the International Criminal > Court. > > Governments can help humanitarian groups that offer medical and psychosocial > services for survivors. Syrian women's rights organizations are already > taking action to combat and respond to gender-based violence, including > organizing family-based care for displaced children of survivors. The > international community can and should support Syrian civil society in this > work. > > Shame is a powerful feeling that causes retreat. It causes us to lower our > heads and look away. But we have a chance to lift up the survivors of > sexualized violence in Syria and honor them by paying attention, by caring > enough to bring their suffering to an end, by telling them that we do not > accept the violence against them. > > Follow > > Join us at > > The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Lauren Wolfe. > © 2013 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights > Reserved. > Share this article inShare > > > ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! 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