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PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2004 12:05 pm    Post subject: Iraqis Womens Protest Reply with quote

Iraqis Womens Protest

By Sue E., Journalist


London, England - Grosvenor Square The US Embassy - We have all seen the photos of the abuse torture and humiliation of Iraqi men held by US and British forces in Iraq but little has been said about the
treatment of the women held captive in those same prisons.



Today hundreds of Iraqi women protested outside the American Embassy about the plight of the 2000 women held captive by the US, women who are also being tortured and abused and in some cases raped . The women imprisoned are being subjected to this form of treatment, so that intelligence can be gathered about their menfolk. We must remember that the vast majority of people now imprisoned by the coalition forces are innocent civilians, and that simply because most Iraqis are against the occupation, that this does not make them terrorists.



As the women chanted: "the US rapes women", "the US tortures women"; a spokeswoman said that the abuses were not a surprise to the Iraqi people and that the occupation of Iraq was seen as a western bid to secularise the Islamic world and communities within western societies. That the banning of the Hajaab in French schools was a case in point and that the Iraqis wanted their country for themselves, to be run by them in their own way and not be influenced by western imperialism. The spokeswoman also stated that she (as as an Iraqi woman), and many others, brought up in a western country had rejected the notion of western ideas of female liberation to follow the Islamic tradition instead.

There is growing evidence of the ill-treatment and rape of women imprisoned in Iraq by the occupying forces. These women today have given voice to the disgust that decent people feel hearing of these outrages against both the women and men of Iraq.

www.1924.org




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