The Enemy Has Won
The Enemy Has Won (2005)
According to the New York Times,
women are being raped in Darfur
(and elsewhere)
"as a weapon of war."
Right on page A9 they stated:
Rape is a cultural taboo there
(and elsewhere)
"so the victims are ostracized by their families."
In paragraph ten of that article was the
story of a pregnant woman raped
by five men
for six nights in a row.
"My husband could not forgive me," she said.
Her husband could not forgive her.
Her husband could not forgive
her.
He disowned me, she said.
Could it be that he could not forgive himself
for being unable to stop the rape of his wife
and their culture? Could it be that he could
not attack the assailants, so he turned on his
wife, the victim? Is man so weak there
(and here) that the victim takes the blame?
The rapists are forgotten?
When husbands turn against injured wives,
when families reject their hurt sisters and daughters,
in the Sudan,
and everywhere
the enemy has won,
has won at least a battle.
- molly saccardo Friday, June 15, 2007
