Rape is part of war. EVERY war. To doubt it happens is ignoring the ENTIRE history of humankind/

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I'm baffled as to how there can be doubt that women are being raped in Libya. Just a few months after what happened to the American reporter in Egypt.

Rape is one of war's most powerful tools. It subjugates the enemy. It makes them lose value in the eyes of the victor.

If you doubt it then you need to read The Rape of Nanking. That way you can see pictures of what the Japanese did to the Chinese women. You can doubt words but it is hard to ignore a photo of a dead woman on the side of the road who has been repeatedly raped and then had a gun stuck into her privates and shot.

The Rape of Nanking interviews families who watched their women dragged away and brutalized by whole squads of men. This is just 70 years ago. But it happened in Korea, it happened in Poland, it happened in Italy, it happened all over the European warfront. All nicely documented.

But if that isn't enough, then research the Greek armies, the Roman armies, the Ottoman's, the Crusades, and war after war since then. Rape is a tool of war. If you kill all the men and boys and rape all the women, the next generation is going to be half war victor/half victim and such is how the conquest of a people occurs.

Rape is a part of war. Every war I've read about. To think it isn't happening in Libya is pretty (I don't want to use a judgemental word and get blocked so I will say) ignorant.