Nobel Peace Prize -Nadia Murad & Denis Mukwege, against sexual violence in war

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BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) Tweeted:
Nobel Peace Prize goes to campaigners against rape in warfare Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege https://t.co/BGsYTjv4tV

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"The winners announced in Oslo on Friday won the award for their "efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war," Ms Reiss-Andersen said.


Ms Murad is a Yazidi woman who was tortured and raped by Islamic State militants. Mr Mukwege is a Congolese gynaecologist who has treated victims.

Mr Mukwege and his colleagues in DR Congo are said to have treated about 30,000 rape victims, developing great expertise in the treatment of serious sexual injuries, many in instances of war. {note, the English often call surgeons
Mister}
Ms Murad became the face of a campaign to free the Yazidi people and stop human trafficking after escaping IS in November 2014.

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1. Info on the Nobel Laureates

From BBC.com
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21499068

"Denis Mukwege is a gynaecologist working in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He and his colleagues have treated about 30,000 rape victims, developing great expertise in the treatment of serious sexual injuries. His story includes disturbing accounts of rape as a weapon of war."
snip...started to ask myself what was going on. These weren't just violent acts of war, but part of a strategy. You had situations where multiple people were raped at the same time, publicly - a whole village might be raped during the night. In doing this, they hurt not just the victims but the whole community, which they force to watch.

The result of this strategy is that people are forced to flee their villages, abandon their fields, their resources, everything. It's very effective."

snip " After the attack, Dr Mukwege fled with his family to Sweden, then to Brussels, but he was persuaded to return to Congo last month."

more at article above.


From BBC.com
"Nadia Murad Miss Murad became the face of a campaign to free the Yazidi people and stop human trafficking after escaping IS in November 2014.

The 23-year-old had been captured and enslaved three months earlier along with about 5,000 women and girls.

Miss Murad became the face of a campaign to free the Yazidi people and stop human trafficking after escaping IS in November 2014.

The 23-year-old had been captured and enslaved three months earlier along with about 5,000 women and girls."
snip..."She went on to brand IS's attack on the Yazidi a "genocide", adding: "The free world is not reacting."
A bit more at article.

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2. Could not help making the connection with two major assaulters: Trump and Kavanaugh

PBS NewsHour had a devastating report of using rape as a war weapon

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/nobel-peace-prize-winners-fight-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war

and I was thinking that, were they born there, Trump, and Kavanaugh and Roy Moore and others could have committed similar crimes.

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3. Too true, too true

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4. kick