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Monday, October 5, 2009

In a Guinea Seized by Violence, Women as Prey

Strangely silent: United Nations.

Should the world send in troops? Why bother? Locate the places where the government officials live, work, and do their nastiness... and bomb the hell out of them. The message to animals such as these should be, we won't get our hands dirty with the likes of you. We won't send in our people to fight you. We will just exterminate you.

And that should be the common message sent around the world.

But we are too civilized and we need to keep the moral high ground....
In a Guinea Seized by Violence, Women as Prey

Published: October 5, 2009

CONAKRY, Guinea — Cellphone snapshots, ugly and hard to refute, are circulating here and feeding rage: they show that women were the particular targets of the Guinean soldiers who suppressed a political demonstration at a stadium here last week, with victims and witnesses describing rapes, beatings and acts of intentional humiliation.

In a cellphone photograph given to The New York Times, soldiers surrounded a woman on the ground on Sept. 28 in Conakry, Guinea. Several images appear to show attacks on women.

“I can’t sleep at night, after what I saw,” said one middle-aged woman from an established family here, who said she had been beaten and sexually molested. “And I am afraid. I saw lots of women raped, and lots of dead.”

One photograph shows a naked woman lying on muddy ground, her legs up in the air, a man in military fatigues in front of her. In a second picture a soldier in a red beret is pulling the clothes off a distraught-looking woman half-lying, half-sitting on muddy ground. In a third a mostly nude woman lying on the ground is pulling on her trousers.

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