About 2 women a month are raped and then murdered serving

[midnight]

Is There an Army Cover-Up of Rape and Murder of Women Soldiers?
By Ann Wright
the United States in their quest to bring freedom to other women and men in foreign countries. It is sad that the men from their own country, the United States, have been allowed to get away with this.

t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Monday 28 April 2008

The Department of Defense statistics are alarming - one in three women who join the US military will be sexually assaulted or raped by men in the military. The warnings to women should begin above the doors of the military recruiting stations, as that is where assaults on women in the military begin - before they are even recruited.

But, now, even more alarming, are deaths of women soldiers in Iraq and in the United States following rape. The military has characterized each death of women who were first sexually assaulted as deaths from "noncombat related injuries," and then added "suicide." Yet, the families of the women whom the military has declared to have committed suicide strongly dispute the findings and are calling for further investigations into the deaths of their daughters. Specific US Army units and certain US military bases in Iraq have an inordinate number of women soldiers who have died of "noncombat related injuries," with several identified as "suicides."

Ninety-four US military women have died in Iraq or during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Twelve US civilian women have been killed in OIF. Thirteen US military women have been killed in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). Twelve US Civilian women have been killed in Afghanistan.

[niyad]

1. please cross-post in gd, if you would.

[truedelphi]

5. Yes PLS cross post. this should be a general knowledge kinda thing

Imagine what will happen in their communities when these rapists get back!!

[niyad]

2. k & r

[niyad]

3. . . .

[eomer]

4. Here's a link to the article.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042808A.shtml

And a K&R.