The Ultimate Horror!The American Secretary of State recently stated that she was committing $17 million dollars to The Democratic Republic of Congo’s problem, wherein rape is used there as a weapon. In reality, $17 million can only be considered as a down-payment toward eradicating this problem that defies adequate words of description.
The depths to which man can sink in his inhumanity towards his fellow man never ceases to amaze me. Just studying this subject makes me want to vomit. It certainly causes me to shrink in disgust that creatures who look like me are capable of doing such things. In researching this topic I came across these practises in the war that took place in Bosnia-Herzegovina. A 22 year-old Serbian soldier was brought to trial charged with 32 murders and 16 rapes. He was alleged to have killed 12 of the 16 women he was charged with raping. His victims were all Bosnian Muslims, and the point of these actions were to humiliate, control, and to inflict pain.
The defendant claimed that he was forced by his commander to do the things he did. To further complicate matters, the husbands and fathers of some of the women were forced to watch them being raped, and in some cases fathers and brothers were made to rape them as well or be killed.
It is true that in this context these actions take place in and a part of wartime activities. War brings out the very worst in humans, but even with that qualification the image of women being contained in camps where they are used by men as mere “toilets” is simply inexcusable and horribly disgusting. I know that these practises go back in time over many wars and years, and that in order for them to take place there has to be a green light from the very top of the command.
I would just like to think that there is a special place where all those who are culpable go to be punished. Instead, so many of them get to wear their ribbons on their chest and are honoured as war heroes.
I believe that no man, no matter how outraged and embarrassed by the actions of others who say they are men also, can truly understand what it is like to be raped. To have your dignity torn away from you and to be left in an abused and used state must be the ultimate degradation. To be housed for the pleasure of male captors and used as a WC until you die can only be understood by me if it were to happen to me.
We are not talking so much about man’s inhumanity to man, as his inhumanity to women. These are the same men who were born of mothers. It’s a pity that they hate themselves so much.
Copyright © 2010 Eugene Carmichael
