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...trapped in territory controlled by the other side. At Aloa, the Turks showed newsmen a mass grave that held the remains, so they said, of 57 Turkish Cypriots who had been murdered by Greek extremists. They uncovered only five corpses however. The Greeks countered with their own accusations of rape and murder. According to U.N. officials, both sides were exaggerating their tales of atrocity...
Peeleman's letter is a graphic illustration of what the revolt against rape is all about-not only the physical crime of violence, but the attitudes that perpetuate and nurture the crime. What woman-or man-would move when the gun at their head might go off or the knife at their throat might slip...
Coordinator, National Rape Task Force...
...hoping to God we don't have to. For many of us there is a recurring sense of powerlessness--the same powerlessness we feel when we walk down a street at night, knowing that if we reach the other end in safety, it is because they choose not to rape us, not because we choose not to be raped...
America's working-class women have possibly the meanest street in the country to travel--and when they scream rape, almost no one will care. So they are learning a lesson which many more secure women have yet to learn--that we have not won ground until we are strong enough to hold that ground alone. And like the Vietnamese peasants fighting imperialism, they cannot give up the fight and go home--what they are fighting for is a home to go to. But working-class women are learning to fight well. In that reality there is hope...