Women
décembre 29th, 2008
I’ve seen different ones come by these past few weeks. Old women, young girls, women of my own age. Women from all of the different groups involved in this conflict. Their faces reveal shock, fear and shame. Sometimes they show no emotion at all. It’s also difficult for me to explain how this makes me feel: full of disbelief, powerlessness, incomprehension.
Disbelief because I cannot understand how a person, how a man can do this to a woman. Powerlessness because this is the reality in this world. A reality that keeps hitting me in the face and leaves me speechless in front of this woman. Incomprehension because I will never understand how such an experience affects a woman.
The girl is 14 years old. She was raped during the plundering of her village. The pregnant woman, raped in front of her husband. The widow, raped and humiliated by a group of men taking revenge for a relative accused of having links to another group.
And then there is the woman who is my age. She has a gunshot wound in her thigh. She tried to resist.
We take in these women, care for their wounds and give them injections and pills to prevent sexually transmitted infections and HIV.
But some wounds never heal…
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January 2nd, 2009
03:03 PM
Robert
said:
These people will one day pay for this,there is nothing we can do our women are always raped killing of children,but only God can do something coz every thing we do comes back to us…
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January 23rd, 2009
05:09 PM
Vânia Cação
said:
How i’d love to see life with such hope and faith…
Unfortunetly in the real world we don’t see guilty people pay, only inocent people and this happens all over the world, even in my country (Portugal) that is in the world half that is “important”, not the half that is raped and killed and enslaved for the last 500 years.
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February 27th, 2009
03:32 PM
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