I am disgusted, disgusted because humans are capable of such violence. Sri-Lankan soldiers raped a 9-year old Tamil girl. 9-years old. She is a child, not only has she not reached her intellectual capacity, her body has not reached its physical growth. Yet, some sadistic soldiers thought they should rape her. I’m not a feminist, but I believe women have rights, and I believe I have a right to my body, I believe that I own my body, and no one has the right to tough it without my permission. I also believe that the sub-humans who rape anyone, let a 9-year old girl deserve to be punished in the worst way possible.
I think rape by any means is wrong; if someone does not want to touch you, then do not touch them. Nevertheless, we all know this is about power and control. People do not merely rape for sex, but for the power and control feelings elicited by raping a women. And, in times of war, rape is a weapon. It’s a weapon to demonize the women, instill fear in the general population, and de-masculinate the men of the group.
Here’s the definition of a soldier, no where in it do I see rape as a part of their job description. Yet, the Sri-Lankan Soldiers continue to rape.
sol·dier
n.
1. One who serves in an army.
2. An enlisted person or a noncommissioned officer.
3. An active, loyal, or militant follower of an organization.
In the animal kingdom, animals do no rape one another. Animals are not capable of this, because they have more sense than two-legged Sri-Lankan soldiers. When I heard about the rapes the Sri-Lankan soldiers committed to Haiti women, I was angry, angry that soldiers thought it was their God-given right to terrorize people. (I provided a link to that video below)
When I think of a good soldier, I think of our Maveerarkal. I am humbled, and reminded of the dedication, discipline, and love for their country and people. They fight in order to protect, they do not take advantage and abuse other girls to do so. They have proved what it means to be a soldier, what it means to love your motherland, what it means to be dedicated to a just cause. And, rape was not part of any of it.
Even though these atrocities committed by the Sri-Lankan Government’s Army comes to light, the international community bodies with power, will remain silent. Because they too have blood on their hands.
Sri-Lankan Soldiers Rape Haitian Girls:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib3LJz6a0Fk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9TJ9g1ZujU
– Vaanmathy
Article “Sri Lanka soldiers remanded over rape of 9-year old Tamil girl,” Tamilnet
Six Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were taken into custody for allegedly molesting a nine-year-old Tamil girl at Ki’raan Vaazhaichcheani in the eastern Batticaloa district, sources in Batticaloa said. The victim identified one of the perpetrators during an identification parade held in Batticaloa Magistrate Court. Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reported that the soldiers of the Digiliwatiya camp had threatened the protesting villagers, and the body of one protester was recovered in a pond near the SLA camp after the protests.
The victim “was returning home in the company of two of her friends when soldiers bathing near a well chased after her and raped her. The girl was admitted to a hospital and the medical reports confirmed that she had been sexually abused. It is also reported that the girl who is still being treated at the hospital is being questioned constantly by commando officers,” AHRC report said.
The alleged incident happened on the 12th of February. The suspects have been remanded by the Batticaloa Magistrate until 3rd of March, legal sources in Batticaloa said.
When the issue of rape by SLA soldiers was raised by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, Sri Lanka’s Defense Ministry website carried a refutation, saying “such sadistic allegations are far from the existing realities: far from the truth,” and added that “there was no basis whatsoever even to suggest Sri Lankan forces had involved in such gross violence during its three-year humanitarian campaign.”
British weekly, The Observer, in December 2009 said that “Tamil women interned after escaping the horrors of the civil war in Sri Lanka were sexually abused by their guards who traded sex for food,” reporting on an interview with Vany Kumar, a British medic who was released from internment in September from the camps run by Sri Lanka military.
“Systematic rape of Tamil women in custody and in areas under control of Security forces, and sexual abuse of LTTE women cadres caught during combat, had occured from as early as September 1996 when Krishanthy Kumarasamy, a 17-year old highschooler, was murderd after being stopped and raped at an SLA sentry point at Kaithadi, Jaffna. Horrendous videos showing Sri Lankan soldiers abusing women cadres stripped naked have routinely surfaced,” said activist for a Washington-based pressure group.
The link between maintaining international peace and security, and preventing and responding to sexual violence used as a tactic of war to target civilians was first laid out in last year’s United Nation’s Security Council resolution 1325.
United Nations charged 114 Sri Lankan soldiers who were on peace-keeping missions to Haiti in March 2008 with sexual exploitation and abuse against children. After an investigation into pending charges against Sri Lankan troops in Haiti, the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) concluded that “acts of sexual exploitation and abuse [against children] were frequent and occurred usually at night, and at virtually every location where the [Sri Lankan] contingent personnel were deployed.”
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