Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Arab Women Sing During Rapes

I guess when you think of 'others' as animals you'd think nothing of rejoicing as your men rape 'them'. Amnesty International reports this is the case:

While African women in Darfur were being raped by the Janjaweed militiamen, Arab women stood nearby and sang for joy, according to an Amnesty International report published yesterday. The songs of the Hakama, or the "Janjaweed women" as the refugees call them, encouraged the atrocities committed by the militiamen.


The women singers stirred up racial hatred against black civilians during attacks on villages in Darfur and celebrated the humiliation of their enemies, the human rights group said.


Also,

According to an African chief quoted in the report, the singers said: "The blood of the blacks runs like water, we take their goods and we chase them from our area and our cattle will be in their land. The power of [Sudanese president Omer Hassan] al-Bashir belongs to the Arabs and we will kill you until the end, you blacks, we have killed your God."


The chief said that the Arab women also racially insulted women from the village: "You are gorillas, you are black, and you are badly dressed."


So much for the United Nations . . .

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