Abu Ghraib Abuse Video
アブグレブに拘束されていた女性達がアメリカ人やイラク人らに強姦されていたとする複数レポートが登場した。これについてキミットはそのようなことは知らないし、確認もしていないとしている。
果たして男性だけに限って虐待が行われていたのだろうか。
以下の記事には次の証言が紹介されている。
＊アメリカ兵士のいるところでイラク警察にレイプされた。それは１日で１７回にも及ぶ。そして５８時間意識を失った。The International Occupation Watch Centre
＊夫の目の前で米警備員にレイプ。夫の顔を見るように強要、服を脱がせレイプ。そして自殺。Union of Detainees and Prisoners
＊５月１３日に釈放の女性はある部屋に捨て台詞を残しながらアメリカ人らが女性たちを連行していくのを見ていた。Union of Detainees and Prisoners
＊スンニ派宗教地域アル・アンバー出身の若い女性３名はアブグレイブを出たものの妊娠しており、家族に殺害された。
Union of Detainees and Prisoners、バクダッド大学教授
記事ではイラクではレイプは家族全体の名誉を汚すことになり、死んだ方がましだと考えられるということが指摘されている。虐待経験を証言することは誇り高いイラク人男性にとってさえ、決して気楽に行えることではないだろう。まして女性である。証言を行うことは男性以上の覚悟が必要となるということは想像に難くない。
かつてポルノから引用された写真が出回ったことがあったが、レイプを含む衝撃写真の存在を先にインディペンデントが報じている。
IRAQI WOMEN RAPED AT ABU GHRAIB: REPORTS
http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=86121®ion=6
29.5.2004. 12:47:32
Reports have emerged that Iraqi women held at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison were raped by both US and Iraqi jailers, according to human rights groups, following the reports of abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US troops there.
However coalition spokesman Brigadier-General Mark Kimmitt said the prisons department is unaware of any such reports at Abu Ghraib, and the reports have not been confirmed.
The International Occupation Watch Centre, an NGO that gathers information on human rights abuses under coalition rule, said one former detainee has told of the alleged rape of her cellmate.
\"She claimed she had been raped 17 times in one day by Iraqi police in the presence of American soldiers,\" said Iman Khamas, head of the IOWC, adding the victim had allegedly been rendered unconscious for 58 hours.
And another group, the Iraq-based Union of Detainees and Prisoners, has told of a mother of four, arrested in December, who killed herself after being raped by US guards in front of her husband at Abu Ghraib.
According to the group\'s head Daham al-Mohammed, the woman\'s sister who helped in the suicide told of how the woman had been taken into a cell where she saw her husband attached to bars. A US soldier reportedly held her by the hair to force her to look at her husband while he stripped her, then raped her.
A former male prisoner, Amer Abu Durayid, 30, who was released on May 13, reported seeing women taken into a room. \"They had to pass in front of our tent and cried out, \'Find a way to kill us\',\" he said.
Human rights groups say in a conservative society like Iraq, women are made to feel that rape dishonours the whole family and would prefer to die.
Mr Khamas, Mr Mohammed and Baghdad University professor Hoda Nuaimi all separately said three young rural women from the Sunni Muslim region of Al-Anbar had been killed by their families after leaving Abu Ghraib pregnant.
Most of the women arrested by coalition forces are accused of holding senior positions in Saddam Hussein\'s Baath party or assisting the insurgency against the occupation forces.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says about 30 women were housed in the prison in October. According to prison management, there were five at the beginning of May.
関連
■アブグレイブ、レイプ写真、ビデオは実在する
http://counternews.blogtribe.org/entry-f8d0ba2bab396ed911ec64691a3f1dad.html
■Iraqi Girl Aged 12 was stripped and beaten by military personnel
http://counternews.blogtribe.org/entry- d0feba0efdc2688318d24ee61304a618.html
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