Friday, March 6, 2009
Iraqi Suicide Bomber Girl Chooses Life Over Blowing up (August 2008)
26th August 2008
"Tears streaming down her face, she is confronted by police - a teenage girl apparently planning to blow herself up in front of an Iraqi school. The officers handcuffed her to a metal balustrade before moving in with extreme caution to uncover a vest full of explosives hidden under her colourful robe. The dramatic scenes were captured on a video shot by the police.
The girl - thought to be around 15 years old - later said that she was given the bomb and told to wait outside the school for further instructions. In the footage, she denies trying to stage a suicide attack, and appears dazed, even drugged. She gave her first name as Rania and said she was born in 1993. Her exchange with the police offered a rare glimpse at a teenager allegedly recruited by insurgents. However, it was not clear to what extent her answers were given out of fear - of the police, or even of her own family.
Police in Baqouba, where the girl was caught on Sunday, said she was fitted with the vest by female relatives of her husband, whom she married five months ago. They also claimed that the girl's father was a suicide bomber, and her mother and one of her sisters were later arrested. However, U.S. sources said that the girl turned herself in after being hooked up to the explosives against her will. The police footage begins with Rania standing on the street. Her arms are already behind her back, where they have apparently been tied by an officer in an attempt to restrain her. A policeman is shown opening her robe, and later frames show her wearing what appears to be a suicide vest, containing about 33lb of explosives."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1049021/Pictured-The-dramatic-moment-15-year-old-Iraqi-suicide-bomber-gave-up.htmlWomen protest against 'rape' in Northeast India
Naked women protestors shout slogans against the alleged rape, torture and murder of 32-year-old Thangjam Manorama Devi by paramilitary soldiers in Imphal, capital of northeastern Indian state of Manipur, Thursday, July 15, 2004. In a highly unusual protest, some 40 women stripped naked and staged an angry demonstration outside the Assam Rifles base to protest the death in custody of 32-year old Manorama.
The death triggered a violent campaign against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act act, (AFSPA) forcing the Manmohan Singh government to constitute the Justice B.P. Jeevan Reddy Commission, which recommended repeal of the act as did the Administrative Reforms Commission. But the government is yet to act on them.
Kurdish Women Fighters
Kurdish women fighters on the Iraq Turkish border
Iraqi Kurd women fighters cross a street in the front of Chamchamal's military headquarters near the frontline with Saddam Hussein's troops on March 21, 2003.
"We want a natural life, a society that revolves around women, where women and men are equal, a society without pressure, without inequality, where all differences between people are eliminated," says Rengin, the head of a female battalion of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.
PEJAK Kurdish woman fighter, (PEJAK - Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan), PEJAK fights against the Iran regime for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdistan province northwestern of Iran
A Kurdish woman fighter has said in the 30's that "a lion is a lion, neither male nor female."
Click here for a Film about Kurdish Women Freedom Fighters
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Mob Justice Kenyan style !!!
These are the pictures of a married woman caught having extra-marital affair with another man in Kenya. Then the self-righteous mob decided to punish her for going against the societal norms. She was stripped and made to parade naked on the streets under a cry of derision from a hostile, self-righteous and barbaric crowd. The man who is her partner (extreme right in a blue shirt with no pants), seems to be one of those mocking her here. In first picture, he is partially dressed but in the next picture, he is completely unclothed.
The treatment meted out to the women is not only barbaric but also inhuman. How can a person feel excited, when a woman is being stripped of her rights and basic dignity. These reveal the sorry state of women and children in our society today.
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