The War Against Iraqi Women

Hussein Al-alak, The Iraq Solidarity Campaign

Just how far is the occupation willing to turn the clocks back, on the rights and civil liberties of women in Iraq, with the forced separation of families and the use of rape as a weapon to humiliate and control the population. The present day situation is a continuation of "mediaeval traditions", which is being enforced by the "civilised colonialists", in a scene which was first described in 1982 by Suad Khari of the Iraqi Women’s League. During the colonial occupation of Iraq, Dr. Khairi explained, "Under tribal laws the woman could be murdered and the murderer escape punishment". "Women were "regarded as deficient human beings"."Women suffered from the consequences of backwardness and dependency, and the cruelty of the mediaeval traditions that the "civilised" colonialists strove to maintain."...

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