{"id":939,"date":"2003-11-18T15:18:55","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T15:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/11\/18\/rape_in_bosnia_a_must_read.html"},"modified":"2003-11-18T15:18:55","modified_gmt":"2003-11-18T15:18:55","slug":"rape_in_bosnia_a_must_read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/11\/18\/rape_in_bosnia_a_must_read.html","title":{"rendered":"rape in bosnia&#8230;  a must read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After many years of working for V-Day, i can never forget the look on Eve&#8217;s face back in 1998 when she told us about her visits to Bosnian refuge camps.  There were six of us, all students, all determined to carry on the V-Day spirit and the second-hand look of incomprehension, horror and loss still sticks in my head, particularly since it came from one of the most vibrant and passionate women i&#8217;ve ever met.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, through the blog world, i was given a pointer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bosnia.org.uk\/news\/news_body.cfm?newsid=1830\">&#8220;a cradle of inhumanity&#8221;<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a heartbreaking feature story, echoing the pain that i always saw in second-hand form from Eve.  The struggle of women who give birth to children after having been raped.  The inequalities of being raped as a systematic tactic of war&#8230; not being recognized as a victim, not being given any level of economic or social support.  The inequalities, the pain.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to hear about this level of pain second-hand.  I cannot imagine having a child that way.  I cannot imagine the horrors that these women go through.  But i can read, i can listen and i can try to make it never happen again.<\/p>\n<p>I ask you to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After many years of working for V-Day, i can never forget the look on Eve&#8217;s face back in 1998 when she told us about her visits to Bosnian refuge camps. There were six of us, all students, all determined to carry on the V-Day spirit and the second-hand look of incomprehension, horror and loss still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}