The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict https://t.co/4H91woKf4r pic.twitter.com/r6kf4CYjQB— CNN (@CNN) October 6, 2018
WNU editor: When I started this blog 11 years ago one of the first posts that I did was on the use of mass rape by Sri Lankan soldiers on Tamils during their civil war. Since then I have lost count on how many posts I have done covering conflicts where sexual crimes were committed on a massive scale. It was also during this time that I began to realize that these crimes should be viewed as a war crime, and punished as such. Today's awarding of the Nobel Prize to Nadia Murad, a 25-year-old from Iraq and Denis Mukwege, 63, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a small but important step in making the world aware on how horrific these crimes are, and why they must be treated as war crimes. Kudos to the Nobel Committee for their decision on who should be awarded this year. It was one that I did not expect.
6 comments:
Good that people who were actually making the world better get recognition. We can all get behind a merit based price.
Rape is symptom, a byproduct.
Treat the disease.
There are those who will always believe women are spoils of war. Heck, even in the military around the world sexual violence towards female soldiers is widespread.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/world-militaries-sexual-violence-problem-180501103623616.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault_in_the_United_States_military
That seems strange given that women are trained fighters and often have access to weapons. It surprises me that there aren't a lot of cases of say, fragging wherever it happens and especially in the war zones.
Males soldiers raping other male soldiers without serious retaliation, now that is really bad.
”I retired from banking after 32 years. “ - Bob Huntley
October 21, 2015 at 1:11 PM
“By the way I spent my life working as a machinist in an elevator factory. Imagine this if you can…” - Bob Huntley
September 23, 2018 at 12:43 PM
I can imagine Bob is a liar.
And Bob is always anti-American.
So he is a counter link, Bob:
Sexual assault in the Canadian Forces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault_in_the_Canadian_Forces
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2018/09/us-national-security-adviser-john.html?showComment=1537720980398#c6878557328942708503
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-look-at-russias-rules-of-engagement.html?showComment=1445447512158#c2924949667996215899
Berlin 1945. Russian forces committed rape on a ghastly scale. Rape is an age old spoil for conquerors.
Rape has been out of fashion since at Least the Age of Reason.
'The King' lays down the law or it is laid down by others and the King is no longer king.
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