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by Anonymous on October 20th, 2008

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Why were gypsy women raped during world war 2 and even before then, and up until this day too?

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  • by Anonymous on January 23rd, 2009

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    Marginalized groups bare the brunt of most societal degradation.

    When people are dehumanized it becomes that much easier for an aggressor to debase because "they're not like us."

    Those who don't homogenize/assimilate are punished for doing so. Jews and Gypsies for centuries have endured people attempting to uproot them or indoctrinate them in some form or fashion. Some countries tried to allow their customs (dress, language, name) and some tried to steal their children for indoctrination. These are low ball tricks that they later enacted on other Non-European groups such as Aborigines, Amerindians, Islanders and Africans.

    They interpret difference as an affront to their way of life. When history is re-written these perpetrators cast themselves as "saviors " to a "lost people" on the brink of destruction. Truth be told they were fine having never met them.

    It stems from that egocentric manifest destiny, world is mine mindset. They vilify anyone who lives differently themselves. These conquerors who want to change the world, in truth just want to standardize it to their way of thinking because it makes the world easier to comprehend. The unknown frightens them so attempting to control everything is how they achieve comfort.

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  • by MG1942 Has a Life Penguin on October 20th, 2008

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    Why are any women raped, Gypsy or otherwise? Horny bastards with psychological problems and/or sexual dysfunction take out their frustration on the nearest object of their ire.

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  • by Moongrim on January 23rd, 2009

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    Because assholes thought they could get away with it.

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  • by iwnit on January 23rd, 2009

    iwnit

    Rape is still a "common" thing, especially in war.


    1) "In 1998, Judge Navanethem Pillay of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda said:
    'From time immemorial, rape has been regarded as spoils of war. Now it will be considered a war crime. We want to send out a strong message that rape is no longer a trophy of war.'

    Rape, in the course of war, dates back to antiquity, ancient enough to have been mentioned in the Bible. It was common for the troops of ancient civilizations to rape the women and boys of conquered towns.

    The systematic rape of as many as 80,000 women by the Japanese soldiers during the six weeks of the Nanking Massacre is an example of such atrocities. During World War II an estimated 200,000 Korean and Chinese women were forced into prostitution in Japanese military brothels, as so-called "comfort women". At the end of World War II, Red Army soldiers are estimated to have raped around 2,000,000 German women and girls. French Moroccan troops known as Goumiers committed rapes and other war crimes after the Battle of Monte Cassino. (See Marocchinate.)

    It has been alleged that an estimated 200,000 women were raped during the Bangladesh Liberation War by the Pakistani army, (though this has been disputed by many including the Indian academic Sarmila Bose]), and that at least 20,000 Bosnian Muslim women were raped by Serb forces during the Bosnian War.

    Wartime propaganda often alleges, and exaggerates, mistreatment of the civilian population by enemy forces and allegations of rape figure prominently in this. As a result, it is often very difficult, both practically and politically, to assemble an accurate view of what really happened.

    Commenting on rape of women and children in recent African conflict zones Unicef said that rape was no longer just perpetrated by combatants but also by civilians. According to Unicef rape is common in countries affected by wars and natural disasters, drawing a link between the occurrence of sexual violence with the significant uprooting of a society and the crumbling of social norms. Unicef states that in Kenya reported cases of sexual violence doubled within days of post-election conflicts. According to Unicef rape was prevalent in conflict zones in Sudan, Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is estimated that more than 200,000 females living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo today have been raped in recent conflicts.

    In 1998, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found that systematic rape was used in the Rwandan genocide. The Tribunal held that "sexual assault [in Rwanda] formed an integral part of the process of destroying the Tutsi ethnic group and that the rape was systematic and had been perpetrated against Tutsi women only, manifesting the specific intent required for those acts to constitute genocide." An estimated 500,000 women were raped during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

    The Rome Statute, which defines the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, recognizes rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, "or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity" as crime against humanity if the action is part of a widespread or systematic practice.

    Rape was first recognised as crime against humanity when the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia issued arrest warrants based on the Geneva Conventions and Violations of the Laws or Customs of War. Specifically, it was recognised that Muslim women in Foca (southeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina) were subjected to systematic and widespread gang rape, torture and enslavement by Bosnian Serb soldiers, policemen and members of paramilitary groups after the takeover of the city in April 1992.

    The indictment was of major legal significance and was the first time that sexual assaults were investigated for the purpose of prosecution under the rubric of torture and enslavement as a crime against humanity. The indictment was confirmed by a 2001 verdict of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia that rape and sexual enslavement are crimes again humanity. Amnesty International stated that the ruling challenged the widespread acceptance of the torture of women as an intrinsic part of war."
    Source and further information:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape#Rape_in_war


    2) "Evidence of the magnitude of rape in Bosnia prompted the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to deal openly with these abuses.

    Reports of sexual violence during the Bosnian War (1992–95) and Kosovo War (1996–99), part of the Yugoslav wars, a series of conflicts from 1991 to 1999, have been described as "especially alarming". Since the entry of the NATO-led Kosovo Force, rapes of Serbian, Albanian, and Roma women by ethnic Albanians, sometimes by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, have also been documented.

    It has been estimated that during the Bosnian War between 20,000 and 50,000 women were raped. The majority of the rape victims were Muslim women raped by Serbian soldiers. Although men also became victim of sexual violence, war rape was disproportionately directed against women who were (gang) raped in the streets, in their homes and/or in front of family members."
    Source and further information:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_rape


    3) "Hungary’s biggest ethnic minority is the Roma minority adding up to approximately 10 percent of the overall population. The Roma are generally characterized by a lack of resources, extreme poverty, and massive discrimination. Roma women are among the least likely to have education and employment, and we can safely say that they encounter a significantly higher extent of interpersonal violence both from peer men and majority groups than white women. In general the majority considers Roma women immoral and good for one thing – rape. This is reflected in the fact that the vast majority of street prostitutes are Roma girls and women."
    Source and further information:
    http://www.rcne.com/downloads/RCCs/Hungary.doc


    4) "During the Shoah, women of child bearing age, although useful to the Nazis as workers, posed a menace because they could bear Jewish (or Roma) children and ensure the continuity the 'racially inferior' groups and were therefore exterminated (Rittner and Roth, 1993)."
    Source and further information:
    http://www.socresonline.org.uk/4/2/lentin.html

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