Rape!

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Rape as a weapon of war.

This is something few people like to think about. But it has been around ever since people have waged war. And more significantly, it is around and going strong right now. Does not say much about the human condition! But a proper appreciation is necessary to understand the phenomenon.

We are not talking here about soldiers filled with lust and running amok raping the women of the enemy just to satisfy sexual needs.

We are talking about a conscious effort to defile the women of your enemy. A conscious effort that has long term ramifications.

Classic defeat of an enemy in war consists of destroying the enemies military, occupying their land, and breaking their will to resist.

Rape serves the purpose in war of demonstrating to the conquered that your adversary is strong and you are weak. They are the master and you are the servant. That the victor can do as they want and do so as you please in a manner calculated to most humiliate and debase the enemy.

In addition, the rapists are precluding the possibility of future generations of your enemy from once again facing you on the battlefield [this will be explained in more detail further].

The fact is that rape has long been recognized as a power trip for the rapist. The one doing the raping is exercising and demonstrating his power over the one being raped. Prison rape for instance, is not about sex-starved men getting release for their lust, it is about domination. The one being raped is being shown that they are the weaker and at the mercy of the rapist. And that they had better do as they are told. In war, it is no less.

Many examples from ancient antiquity to the present bear witness that rape in war is about power, domination, and debasement of the vanquished.

From the "Trojan Women", the play by Euripides, we see quotes that indicate the lowly and debasing status given to the captured women of Troy, after the conquest by the Achaens. [my comments in bold].

"Cassandra, whom the king Apollo left to be a virgin, frenzied maid, hath Agamemnon, in contempt of the god's ordinance and of piety, forced to a dishonoured wedlock."

Cassandra was the daughter of Priam, king of Troy. Forced to become a bride of Agamemnon, the victor at Troy.

"Whose slave shall I become in my old age? in what far clime? a poor old drone, the wretched copy of a corpse, set to keep the gate or tend their children, I who once held royal rank in Troy."

Here, Hecuba, Queen of Troy, laments how she was a royal, and now will be a servant.

"What! Phoebus' virgin-priestess, to whom the god with golden locks granted the boon of maidenhood?"

Here, the talk is once of again of Cassandra, who was to be chaste forever, is violated and becomes the bride of the conqueror.

"To minister at Achilles' tomb hath been appointed her."

Another daughter of Priam has been assigned the task of administering to the tomb of the greatest of Greek warriors. And the killer of her brother!

"And what of mail-clad Hector's wife, sad Andromache? declare her fate.

She too was a chosen prize; Achilles' son did take her."

A woman was taken as wife by the son of the man who killed her husband!!

And this can go on and on with the play the "Trojan Women". The whole point is the that women of Troy are not only slaves, but debased in their slavery in specifically chosen ways to make the humiliation that much worse!!

To read Euripides "Trojan Women", click here.

Another war from antiquity that illustrates the phenomenon of rape in war is the abduction of the Sabine women by the Romans.

When Romulus found the nation of Rome, the Romans found they had too few women. So they tricked and abducted the women of the nearest tribe, the Sabines, who they were in conflict with. Because of this future generations of Sabines did not exist, as the Sabines became absorbed into the Roman populace. Rome still existed, the Sabines did not. To read further about this click here.



I have said in previous posts that the one man that has the most living descendants is Genghis Khan. Having six wives and many concubines, Genghis was able to procreate himself at a prodigious rate. These concubines were mostly women from among his conquered and destroyed enemies. Genghis has alive today and estimated 16 million descendants!! And the quote of Genghis on what is happiness is most indicative of his attitude toward the women of the vanquished:

"Man's greatest good fortune is to chase and defeat his enemy, seize his total possessions, leave his married women weeping and wailing, ride his gelding, and use the bodies of his women." - Genghis Khan

Genghis would not have stood up well under investigation for war crimes by current standards!!

And rape as a weapon of war is not of course confined to antiquity. Hardly so!

In the years just prior to World War Two, the Japanese committed one of the most barbaric atrocities of the war, perhaps the most barbaric.

Rape of the women of the enemy was a large part of the barbarity.

After a six week long siege, the Japanese captured the capital of China, Nanking!

Among the Japanese soldiers, this was felt to be a climactic event of the war against China.

It was felt by the Japanese that this capture would mean the end to the war.

To celebrate, the Japanese soldiery was allowed to do more or less as they pleased by their superiors [General Cho, later to commit suicide on Okinawa when cornered by U.S. troops].

And do as they please they did.

All men, civilians and military, captured in the city were put to death, and in mostly horrific ways. Beheading being the most popular.

All females from age seven to seventy were raped. Some over and over. All females not falling into the category of potential rape victims [7-70 years old] were killed, again mostly by beheading. A

nd this sort of thing went on for four weeks. Finally sated, the Japanese ceased [they probably ran out of victims].

Not even the Nazi SS would have stooped to such behavior [not systematic and orderly]. To read further about this click here.

The aftermath of the Second World War in the part of Germany occupied by the Russians was also another example of rape in war.

The Red Army for a long period of time after cessation of hostilities [months and perhaps years], behaved like conquerors.

Millions of German women were systematically raped by their Red Army conquerors, some over and over. This again had probably almost nothing to do with lust on the part of the soldiers. Was a decision to allow the rape by Soviet authorities as a way of dominating and demonstrating to the Germans that the Soviets were now the rulers and that the old way is gone. Submit or else. To read further about this click here, and here.

As with all things about World War Two, rape in the two above instances was done on such a colossal and bestial and barbaric manner, that it is almost beyond belief. This was rape with a purpose, and was pursued by the perpetrators with such relish, that it demonstrates what is called in criminal law circles a depraved mentality.

And in recent years, we see the evidence of rape as an instrument of war in both the Balkans and most recently in the Sudan. Rape that is very pre-meditated and takes advantage in both cases of religious convictions and cultural practices to maximize the effect of the rape.

In the fighting between the Serbs and the Bosnian Muslims in the most recent Balkan war, rape was indeed a weapon of war.

Several of the leaders of the Bosnian Serbs were clinical psychologists and understood very well the Muslim mentality and culture.

A woman in Muslim culture who is raped will not be ever again acceptable to her husband or to a future husband if she is unmarried. These rapes of Muslim women, done on the scale with which they were done, again, preclude a future generation from being begated.

A future generation that would perhaps fight the Bosnian Serbs in another war.

The Serb men are breeding their enemy out of existence by raping the women of the enemy. By impregnating Muslim women or by raping them over and over the Serb men create a group of outcasts that cannot have Muslim children in the future.

Very sinister, well thought out, and demonstrating again a depraved mentality. And this by men that call themselves clinical psychologists!!?? Click here to read more about the Bosnia rapes.

This brings us to the present, right now, as we speak. In the western part of the Sudan, an area called Dar Fur, rape is being used as a weapon of war.

Pastoral tribesmen are being driven into the Sahara desert by militias called janjaweed. These janjaweed, spurred on by the central government of the Sudan in Khartoum, are using scorched earth tactics to achieve their aims in Dar Fur.

Bombing, shooting, burning, looting, etc. All the usuals of such tactics are being employed by the janjaweed, with central government support.

The pastoralists have been driven across the border into Chad in numbers around 1 million persons. And as part of the "ethnic cleansing" campaign, the janjaweed are using rape.

Again, Muslim women seem to be particularly susceptible to this sort of process, for cultural and religious reasons. The janjaweed, being Muslims know this perfectly well and are taking full advantage of the rape phenomenon to destroy the Dar Fur populace now, and for the future as well.

Young women, when raped, are also reportedly being branded!!!

This brand will serve as notice to any other Muslim man of what has happened to this woman and preclude her being a candidate for marriage. These branded woman will become outcasts. By not having husbands, they cannot begat and produce another generation. The janjaweed are breeding their enemies out of existence by rape!! Read about what is going on in the Sudan by clicking here.

Please forgive me when I say that the above entry makes you want to go outside, take a deep breath, and walk around for a while. This form of behavior really makes you wonder about the human race and the mentality of the same.

And another personal note.

When reading and hearing about the incidents and goings on in the Sudan, that sort of thing makes we wonder this.

Where is Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, Kweisi Mfume [Frizell Grey, his African name means Prince, Son of Kings, now head of the NAACP] and all these black ministers and pundits that describe themselves as leaders of the black American community?

Normally, these people talk about slavery, and the wrongs done to African people and the black American on an endless basis. Over and over they call for action to be done to ease the plight of the black American and the African people. Self-described persons as having a special affinity for the African continent. Were always talking about apartheid and the evils of white rule in South Africa. Where are they on the situation in Dar Fur? NOWHERE!!! Not one peep out of any of them! Hard to believe, but then, maybe not hard to believe.

coolbert.