Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

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The author covers the globe from past to current events. She interviews Yazidi girls who were enslaved and visits with Filipino women whose lives were shattered by sexual enslavement from the Japanese during World War II. Some of these Filipino women married after the war, never telling their husbands – and after long years in their old age told their children. Even as you may think that humanity no longer exists in a world where babies can get raped, Lamb has brought to the fore certain individuals who have given up their own peace and are fighting hard to bring justice to these women and to ensure that sexual violence is no longer used as a war weapon. Dr. Denis Mukwege, Nadia Murad, Christine Schuler Deschryver, Shaker Jeffrey, Abdullah Shrim - these are just some of the people who decided that enough was enough and put their lives on the line to stop the violence. Not to forget how some of the survivors themselves, despite their trauma and in the face of ostracisation, have decided to speak out against their perpetrators.

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Kai kur išgyvenusios moterys gyvena netoli, nuolat susiduria su jų šeimas prievartavusiais, žudžiusiais žmonėmis. Rape is the only crime in which society is more likely to stigmatize the victim than punish the perpetrator.” It must be hard to read,” remarks the woman sitting across from me on a flight when she spies the title of the book in my hand. It was the same in Bangladesh in 1971 and in Argentina under the military junta in 1976-83. And it is the same in the world around us today. As Lamb takes us through the trauma and suffering of women in the Middle East or in Burma, we are chillingly reminded that despite legislation being passed to classify rape and sexual violence (against women and men) as a war crime, the International Criminal Court has not made a single conviction for war rape; that there have been no prosecutions for the abduction of Yazidi women or of young girls in Nigeria. From Christina Lamb, the coauthor of the bestselling I Am Malala and an award-winning journalist—an essential, groundbreaking examination of how women experience war.

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Avastasin raamatu nädal aega tagasi Viru keskuse Rahva Raamatust ja teadsin koheselt, et pean selle endale ostma. Tänaseks ongi teos läbi loetud ja ma olen lihtsalt pahviks löödud. Teadsin, et konfliktides kannatavad väga palju just tsiviilidest naised ja lapsed, kuid nende lood ei jõua väga palju avalikkuse ette. O vertinant tiesiog kaip kūrinį, knygos stilių, tai nejučiomis lyginau su S. Aleksijevič darbais ir pastarieji man skaitėsi įdomiau nei Ch. Lamb knyga.

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Christina Lamb’s “Our Bodies Their Battlefield” is an extensive (but barely) record of what women go through during wars and genocides. It focuses on the hidden victims of conflicts who are subjected to sexual violence and how these victims are unable to even seek justice because of the stigmatisation of rape. Cristina Lamb ne tik keliavo, kalbino, pasakojo nukentėjusių moterų istorijas, bet ir bandė atsakyti į klausimą, kodėl ir kaip prievartavimai tampa ginklu. Trumpai apžvelgė istoriją ir teisinius aspektus. Čia galima išgirsti ir vyrų balsą: smurtautojų, prievartautojų ir tų vyrų, kurie moteris gelbėja nuo prievartautojų.I know I’ve said this before for many of the books I’ve read, but this one in particular is the most bone-chilling book I’ve ever read. The stories of violence depict incidents that you may not even be able to conjure in your most horrifying of nightmares. The disdain for human life is the underlying current of all the interviews that Lamb conducts. Even an eighteen-month old girl is not spared from this. Prievartaujama ne grupiškai, o masiškai, po keliasdešimt kartų tą pačią moterį, vyrą, vaiką, prievartaujama iki mirties, paprievartavus žudoma, prievartaujamos ir nužudytos.

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Oggi, grazie alle nuove tecnologie e ai mezzi di comunicazione, nessuno può dire di non aver saputo. Chiudere gli occhi di fronte a questo dramma signific The 15 chapters cover stories from the Middle East, Africa, South and East Asia, Latin America and Europe. We meet young Yazidi women traded as sex slaves by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the families of the Nigerian schoolgirls snatched by Boko Haram in 2014, Congolese infants who have been horrendously abused, kidnapped Argentine dissidents and bereaved parents, and elderly Filipina women who were imprisoned and raped by the Japanese Imperial Army almost a century ago. Quando ho finito di leggere questo libro il mio primo impulso è stato quello di metterlo da parte e di cercare di dimenticare quello che avevo letto. Non volevo neanche parlarne perchè è stata una lettura troppo dolorosa, troppo cruda. Poi ho pensato a Christina Lamb che ha ascoltato e raccolto queste testimonianze, ma sopratutto ho pensato al coraggio delle donne che hanno raccontato le loro storie, ho pensato alla loro resilienza, alla loro forza. Se loro sono riuscite a raccontare, allora io posso e devo spendere almeno qualche parola per celebrare il loro coraggio. This is a powerful book that not only underlines how women have been written out of history, but how victims of rape have had their suffering enabled, ignored and perpetuated. We cannot understand how the international community and the UN “just stood by and watched us be raped”, Victoire tells the author in Rwanda. And yet, she goes on, “the same things are happening over and over again round the world. We are just simple women, but it’s hard for us to understand.” No one who reads this will finish without reaching the same conclusion.No one is safe, as Lamb shows: under the wrong circumstances, in all corners of the world, communities who used to have drinks together and celebrate one another’s children’s birthdays and achievements turn on their friends and neighbours’ wives, sisters and daughters in an orgy of brutal violence. In many cases, it is not coincidental: rape is perpetrated systematically and deliberately, such as in the war in Bosnia where one European council report stated that it was being used in “particularly sadistic ways to inflict maximum humiliation on victims, their families and on the whole community”.

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

Superb... perhaps the most important work of nonfiction about rape since Susan Brown Miller's Against Our Will (1975). A searing, absolutely necessary expose of the uses of rape in recent wars and of global injustices to the survivors." As we saw with those who spoke about Harvey Weinstein, even strong independent women in the liberal West who speak about sexual predators do so with extreme difficulty and dread.

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