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Gender Wars

This is a horrible, horrible war. The UN recently drew attention to the "massive upsurge" in the use of rape as a military tactic in Darfur. No real suprise there, as women and girls often get the brunt of mankind's inhumanity. But it gets worse. If reports to be believed, it's not the Janjaweed alone that the women of Sudan must live in fear of:
[I] is not only the "enemy" who rape women and children. In many cases it is also those who should protect them - policemen, elders from the communities, and soldiers of the national Sudanese Army, as well as rebel fighters from the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army, SLM/A, and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).
The situation in Darfur is tricky. It's sometimes tough to tell the good actors from the bad ones. But it does seem as if it's rapidly turned into a conflict where no matter who the bad "guys" are from one day to the next, it's the women who are always its victims.

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