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Governments and Mass Media Are Ignoring This Slaughter |
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This just in from my source in Indonesia. In Jakarta and other towns, on July 14th, 20 women who were targets of the systematic rapes and sexual assaults in these past few weeks have died, some in the hands of their attackers, according to activists who were monitoring the incidents. The activists from Volunteers of Humanity state they have solid evidence of at least 168 rapes of women and children dating back to the riots that broke out in May. As recently as July 3, 152 women were raped or |
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sexually abused in Jakarta and its surroundings, while 16 others were raped or sexually assaulted in Solo, Medan, Palembang and Surabaya. Led by the Catholic priest Sandyawan Sumardi, the group visited the National Human Rights organization yesterday to present the report which gave grisly and explicit details of the rapes. The Volunteers of Humanity further state that 20 women and children were either murdered by their assailants, burned to death after the rapists were through with them or subsequently died of their wounds. A nine-year-old girl was gang-raped in her house and then had her genitals mutilated. The girl died in a hospital in Singapore later. |
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Many of the survivors, relatives of the victims, witnesses, doctors, hospitals, as well as volunteers had received phone calls or letters threatening them if they disclosed their ordeal to the public or the authorities. If you want to help, I urge you to write the White House and your Congressmen about these atrocities. Text used by permission of David Lawrence Dewey, Columnist http://www.dldewey.com |
