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May 14th, 2008 at 11:56 am

What Is Justice for A Rape Victim?

» by Phyllis Chesler in: FHK/General

In the mid-1990s, women in the former Yugoslavia were being systematically gang-raped. Often, their rapes were videotaped. Many killed themselves afterwards and many more suffered serious mental illness. At one point, I was preparing to testify about Rape Trauma Syndrome on their behalf in the Hague in the Matter of Bosnia. However, it soon became depressingly clear that both the necessary funding and the requisite political will were utterly absent from this Crimes Against Humanity court.

In the former Yugoslavia, men were not usually gang-raped. Many were tortured, and many were genocidally slaughtered. This happened on President Clinton’s watch and it took a long time and a great deal of persuasion before Clinton allowed America to become militarily involved. Europe did not come to the aid of its immediate neighbor. No Arab or Muslim country came to the aid of their Muslim brethren trapped in this treacherous war-zone.

The public and repeated gang-rapes of both girls and women had become a weapon of war and was no longer merely a “spoil of war.”

I published this piece in 1995, in a small, radical, very politically correct feminist magazine. The war-time rapes of women in the former Yugoslavia preceded the subsequent war-time rapes which took place in Rwanda and Darfur. In 1995, in this piece, I suggested that western feminists must hold themselves accountable for their own isolationism. The fact that I had published this idea in a small, feminist magazine did not rally the feminist troops.

In 2004-2005, I began to write about continuing western feminist passivity in the matter of the “politicized” gang-rapes in Sudan. Once again, feminists (and all other progressives) did not launch hunger strikes or send Missions into that Hell. Mainly Christian groups did that as did a handful of former American “peacekeepers.” What happened this time was that I was attacked for publishing such ideas in a “right-wing conservative” publication such as Frontpage Magazine.

The more things change, the more they also seem to stay the same.

What is Justice for a Rape Victim?

By Phyllis Chesler

There she was, on the front page of the American newspapers, a 20-year-old Bosnian Muslim girl, hanging from a tree, a suicide, dead by her own hand, her death a cry for help. Our silence, deafening.

We cannot say: “We didn’t know, no one told us.” We know. We’ve seen it on TV, read the detailed reports, seen the photos. I knew, feminists knew what was going on in Bosnia. True, we had trouble sleeping over it, and some of us sent money, gathered evidence, drafted lawsuits, petitioned the U.N., counseled and consoled the victims, quietly helped rape-refugees to leave the country, but, as a movement, we failed to mount even one Israeli-style Entebbe-raid, even one mass “pacifist” action on Bosnian soil. We wrung our hands and waited for the patriarchal governments to “do something”: convene a war crimes tribunal in The Hague, bomb Sarajevo, lift the arms embargo, fight it out, man-to-man.

We are the Good Feminist Germans. We-and our respective governments-did even less in the matters of Rwanda, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Liberia, New Guinea, East Timor, Jammu, and Kashmir, Haiti.

In 1971, when I first heard that retreating Pakistani soldiers had begun to gang-rape Bengali women in what would become Bangladesh, I called for the rescue of “our own.” I had once lived in the Muslim world, I knew what would (and did) happen to those raped and raped-and-impregnated women. “Many will kill themselves,” I said, “if their brothers and fathers don’t kill them first.” I called for immediate feminist airlifts of the raped women.

The assembled feminists cheered, thought I was being funny, grandiose, metaphoric: unrealistic. As feminists, we had no place on earth to which we could bring our raped Bengali sisters-assuming they’d agree to leave certain death for uncertain freedom…Continue Reading no Chesler Chronicles >>

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    This is what happens when people depart from Biblical morality and rely on secular humanist, “anything goes” moral relativism. God’s law is necessary for the functioning of a civilized society. That includes God’s law on all topics, including rape.

    Society of Christians for the Restoration of Old Testament Morality on May 14th, 2008

 

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