FARC’s female guerrillas submitted to sexual slavery: Police report

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http://colombiareports.co/colombian-police-report-details-sexual-atrocities-within-farc/

A Colombian police report has claimed to shed light on the appalling treatment of women within the FARC, detailing forced sexual obligations, forced abortions and the spread of sexual diseases, newspaper El Tiempo reported Monday.

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According to the report, young girls between 13 and 15 years of age are targeted for recruitment by the FARC, with each front required to fulfill a “quota” of women because apparently “The women are [considered] necessary to maintain the discipline of the FARC,” said a police investigator.

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Among the 112 female deserters in 2011, 57 did so to search for their children who they gave birth to in the jungle but were subsequently forced to give away by the FARC.

Yet the children who survived could be considered lucky given the alleged high rate of forced abortions within the FARC. Some 80 to 90% of the demobilized ex-FARC women had been forced to have at least one abortion, with some having had up to four.

Citing a widespread lack of condom use, something that contributes to the “high number of women infected with sexually transmitted diseases,” the report indicates that the FARC’s only method of birth control is through abortion. This happens, so says the report, at any point in the gestation period, with several women claiming abortions up to seven months into their pregancy.

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read the whole article about what one of DU's "progressives" calls the womens' "participation in the struggle".