View allAll Photos Tagged rape
Apparently this woman wasn't paying attention. All the kids were ok. My nieces and nephew hadn't gotten on quite yet.
Taken on a jolly walk with my family at Tetney Lock back in May. The Lock is the water you can see in the background.
There's loads of stray rape seed oil plants along the banks. They're pretty, but cause havoc with my hayfever!
Standing By - an immensely powerful statement about the epidemic of rapes and brutal violence against lesbian women in South Africa - choreographed and performed by Athena Mazarakis. At GoetheonMain, Johannesburg, South Africa.
.
simple human interaction between people of different communities has been punished. Such acts were openly defended by the Bajrang Dal head of the district, Sudarshan Moodabidri, who said Girls reform themselves once they are thrashed and humiliated in public, but boys are tougher to control. The Sanghs definition of Indian culture does not only deny women the freedom to visit pubs: rather it attacks even their aspiration to study and have personal friendships and relationships of choice. .
Women in the Hindu Rashtra .
The same Sangh Parivar in BJP-ruled Gujarat raped and massacred thousands of Muslims in 2002. Babu Bajrangi, a Bajrang Dal leader of Gujarat, boasts that he has rescued (abducted) 1000 Hindu women who had married Muslim men, persuading them no doubt through thrashing and humiliation to disown their inter-community marriages. Now, the same forces, with help from an obliging BJP government, are trying to turn Karnataka into Gujarat. For the Sangh Parivar and its various offshoots, the real game plan is to subvert the Indian constitution and democracy and establish a Hindu Rashtra. In such a Hindu Rashtra, needless to say, Muslims, Christians and other minorities will face the fate they did in Gujarat, Mangalore and Kandhamal. And women can visualize life in such a Hindu Rashtra by seeing the events in Karnataka for the past several months. Indian womens hard-won rights and freedoms cannot be surrendered to the diktats of the Sangh fascists. Against all attempts at deflecting the debate, we must forcefully resist not only the attacks on womens rights and freedom of expression by the Sangh outfits, but also any conservative and patriarchal statements from other quarters that tacitly legitimise such attacks. The only morality we uphold is one which respects womens unfettered freedom, and rights to take their own decisions on education, lifestyle, love and marriage; one which resists all attempts to spread communal poison! .
Rajapakses Famous Victory: a Saga of Extermination and Racist Genocide .
On May 18 2009, the Sri Lankan Government declared its final victory over the LTTE, by displaying the body of the slain LTTE chief Prabakaran. Since then, the Sri Lankan regime and its army have indulged in an obscene orgy of humiliation. The body of Prabakaran was displayed by jeering soldiers as a trophy reminiscent of the manner that Saddams capture and killing was displayed by the US. Not content with months of unremitting shelling and chemical assaults on thousands of Tamil civilians, nor with the extermination of the Tamil struggles leadership, the Sri Lankan government is determined now to humiliate the surviving Tamils and flaunt the victory of its racist war. Prabakarans body is being cast into a mass, unmarked grave to obliterate and tarnish the very memory of the Tamil struggle. And the Sri Lankan State is sponsoring celebrations all over the country of the victory over terrorism. Mahinda Rajapaksa will go down in history as the worst-ever authoritarian warlord Sri Lanka has seen. With the change in strategy to resolve the Sri Lankan Tamil question through military extermination, Rajapaksa has proved himself to be only a leader of a reactionary Sinhala chauvinism and not to be a leader of the multi-national, multi-cultural country as a whole. He was not prepared to allow any democratic dissent even within the Sinhala nationality and conspired in the horrific killing of journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga who spoke out against the racist chauvinism of the Sri Lankan state. The office of a human rights lawyer and activist was burnt down for the fault of dissenting against the state, following threats by police officers from a police station in Colombo. For almost six decades now, genocide has been a strategic and consistent response from the Sinhalese dominated Sri Lankan state to the Tamil aspirations for freedom and liberation. Rajapaksa has followed that infamous legacy and carried it to achieve the final solution by wiping out any resistance against repression from Tamil nationality. He should be branded as a war criminal and be tried for deliberate and ruthless violation of international conventions on war. .
.
Sinhala Chauvinism, Racism and the Emergence of Tamil Nationalism .
Rajapakse is trying to garner international support for his war, by claiming it to be a crusade against terrorism embodied in the LTTE. But the emergence of LTTE was nothing but a reaction to the decades of state-sponsored Sinhala chauvinism and racism that massacred thousands of Tamil people in the island country, and to miss this point is an injustice to the national self-determination struggle of Tamil people and their history. Peaceful, legal forms of struggles were tried out for more than three decades after independence, but failed. The state went on with administrative, military and constitutional offensive against Tamils despite many pacts signed on various occasions. A highly moderate organization, Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) enjoyed popular support in the beginning. The Senanayaka Chelvanayakam pact signed in 1965 envisaging some amount of regional autonomy to Tamils by establishing regional councils remained only on paper and was never implemented. The Bandaranayaka Chelvanaagam Pact signed in 1975 for decentralization of powers to eastern and northern provinces too faced the same fate as the government succumbed to the pressures of Sinhala chauvinistic forces. TULF won more than 18 seats to Sri Lankan parliament in 1977 with a mandate to establish an independent, sovereign, secular, socialist state of Tamil Eelam. TULF said that the election is a referendum for the cause of Tamil Eelam, which was popularly known as Vaddukoddai resolution passed in 1976. It is in this process, as all constitutional and peaceful means to raise genuine dissent were blocked, a group of Tamil youths, who believed in armed struggle as the only means, came together and formed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on 5 May 1975. In fact, the Prabakaran-led Tamil New .
.
.