Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Crisis in Guinea (female rape)

From the NYTimes:

In the city’s poor neighborhoods, survivors stood in knots in front of shuttered shacklike stores, vowing revenge and rehearsing in painful detail the attack on Monday that appears to have killed as many as 157 people protesting against the government at the September 28th Stadium here, according to opposition and human rights figures. Too fearful to return to work, some vowed to wage civil war against the nation’s new military strongman, the 45-year-old Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara

At the central morgue, soldiers waved motorists away, shouting at them to “keep moving.” Reclaiming bodies has proved impossible. At the leafy home of Jean-Marie Doré, an elderly opposition leader with half his head covered in a bandage, the crowd fell silent as Mr. Doré described seeing women being sexually assaulted with guns wielded by enraged soldiers two days earlier, as other protesters were hit point blank with bullets.

More on female rape, here.