Posted on 04/24/2011 12:28:07 AM PDT by Never A Dull Moment
Libya horror: Children say they witnessed their mothers raped, fathers murdered
Horror in Libya: Children as young as eight have been sexually assaulted during the conflict between rebels trying to oust the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and forces loyal to him, a British charity said on Saturday.
Save The Children said it had spoken to nearly 300 children in six temporary camps in rebel-held Benghazi and heard reports of rapes and murders committed within the last four weeks in Ras Lanuf, Ajdabiyah and Misrata.
Michael Mahrt, who carried out the assessment, said the families and children spoke of "soldiers" committing the assaults, but the charity could not say which side they came from.
In one case mothers who had fled the fighting told the charity that a group of four or five teenage girls in Ajdabiyah had been abducted, held hostage for four days and raped.
In another case in Ajdabiyah an eight-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in front of her 10-year-old sister and other siblings, the charity said.
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Impossible. Moose-limbs are a peace-loving people. /s
Islam is a war plan.
So which side is being accused of the violations?
Well it surely cannot be lord McCain’s heroes.
I’m sorry, the first thing I think about is this charity raising money. War is hell, always has been, unspeakable things have always happened, and for the near term will continue to. I’m just wondering if this non profit can really stop anything? Sorry for the jaded rant, but the reality of children being hurt serves to motivate others to take up arms and end this as early as possible.
More children were raped here in America today than the last month in Libya.
Thank you for pointing out a nasty human trait.
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Thank you for putting this in such an enlightening perspective.
It brings to mind the recent gang rape initiations reported in California.
This will be another MSM talking point on why Obama has the duty to send troops into Libya.
We don't even know who we are supporting and why it is in our National interest.
Ah democracy!
I think the criminal liberal news media is making stuff up, just like they did with Bosnia.
McCain’s heroes!
IMO the only moral way to wage war is to end it as quickly and efficiently as possible. What 0baMao and NATO are doing is the exact opposite. By creating a stalemate condition between the two sides 0bungle is insuring the maximum death and destruction of both combatants and non-combatants.
But we were told it was just the people wanting a better life!
Actually it is most likely real.
Several years ago I read about why the “mujahadeen” raped the women and children. There was an actual reason as part of the war strategy.
“Wartime atrocities are typically attributed to psychological warfare, military strategies or individual acts of brutality. Although infinite varieties of cruelty have transpired in every war throughout history, the intense media coverage of the war on terrorism and the calculated dissemination of information on the internet has made us all witnesses to unimaginable violence. Suicide bombings, beheadings, mutilation, cutting out tongues, cutting off ears, amputations, gouging out eyes, genital mutilation, and dismembering dead bodies is common and widespread. Although our natural inclination is to relegate these horrific acts to another century, when interpreted in the context of religious ideologies, sacred customs, and cultural traditions it is obvious that they are not anachronisms.
These inexplicable acts need to be understood as sacred violence and comprehended in religious concepts such as sacrifice, blood ritual, iconoclasm and desecration. They are ritualistic acts with distinct functions, meanings, objectives, and justifications. They determine an individual’s status in life, death and the afterlife, relegate punishment of community members and enemies, serve as rites of passage and initiation, and signify fidelity, honor, and courage in a warrior culture. The fact that these chilling acts also serve to terrorize the enemy is a secondary objective, what is commonly referred to as a bonus.”
http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1202/muja07.htm
Was Egypt about politics or installing a more fundamentalist islam? These revolutions appear to be about deposing dictators, but the islamic warrior culture has other intentions. Keep in mind the islamist views islam as the ultimate form of freedom.
So which side is being accused of the violations?
Probably both sides, There is no difference between the fighters except different leaders.
The biggest sin is that one side or the other will have to win. Both sides can’t lose.
That is the main reason we should have stayed out of this mess. No matter which side wins, we lose.
It would be more believable if they had allegedly kidnapped and raped boys or barnyard animals.
The headline is dishonest: In Islam 8 is marrying age. So there it is no big deal right. :-(
A Briish agency? Bush’s fault.
Send Nato home and call in the HRT. “Lon Horiuchi...white courtesy phone please...”
Will there be mass “Honor Killings” now of the victims?
Turns out the "hospital staff" who made these claims were family members of Kuwaiti government officials, and those people were all here in the U.S. when all of this was allegedly going on.
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