The Weapon of Rape

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World leaders fight terrorism all the time, with summit meetings and sound bites and security initiatives. But they have studiously ignored one of the most common and brutal varieties of terrorism in the world today.

This is a kind of terrorism that disproportionately targets children. It involves not W.M.D. but simply AK-47s, machetes and pointed

Comments

[ladypolitik]

Fucking...chilling.

[j_daisy]

So heartbreaking.

[violue]

That's fucking terrifying.

[misscrystal]

I saw the documentary HBO has been running about rape in Congo, and I felt so motherfucking angry.

Lord help me, I'd love to just go handing out knives so that women can start lopping dicks off.

[1voice]

Why don't important women say something about this? Why isn't it on the news? This is disgusting, terrifying and heartbreaking. I am just so pissed.

[theshamex]

Because there are so few important women in positions of power. Sadly, gang rape will always be considered a "secondary issue" so long as men hold the vast majority of all high-ranking government positions across the world.

[1voice]

That is true. I wish that while she was running Hillary Clinton had been able to put some of these important but ignored women's issues on the map.