Another Woman’s Rape Claims Put Iraqi Government In Fresh Quandary
“When I said I did not know their whereabouts, the four soldiers led me to another house and raped me,”
My husband and brothers are all detained and only women are left in the house
As I reported in this posting several other rape cases are coming to light. To refresh you memory here is what I wrote two days ago:
Rape Cases:
The Iraqi Accord called upon the government to protect the human rights of women during arrest and search operations by its troops. At a press conference today Abdel Nasser al-Janabi called for female detainees to be released and said that the rape incident involving Ms. al-Janabi was not the only such that had occurred, that similar cases. not declared had taken place on Palestine Street and Haifa Street amongst other areas.
As I also wrote in that posting:
I am disgusted even at the thought of an Iraki sinking to the level of an American soldier. They will be dealt with and they know it. Your puppet Maliki will be also be dealt with.
I am reproducing below the “more” link and without comment the entire text of a feature published by the independent Iraki news agency Aswat Al Iraq. The text was been published both in Arabic and in English. The Arabic language article received wide attention. I would advise our western readers to handle with care reports in the western Media of how Iraki media are reporting this. In the west it is being reported as a strictly sectarian issue. In large measure they are relying upon translations of articles in Iraki newspapers, American spokesmen, and American “experts” such as Professor Cole, a man who has never lived in Irak and who when he appears on Al Jazeerah speaks in English not Arabic.
What these western “experts” are not telling you but I will is that when you read something, particularly an editorial, or a “comment and analysis” piece from Irak you need to know who it is who owns the newspaper or TV station, or magazine, in question, and which political party or faction they support. Aswat Al Iraq and Al Sabah Al Jadeed are independent which is why concentrate on reports from them.
What I will also tell is that reports of what is being said in the large and important Mosques can be very misleading. This is why we rarely report the sermons from the large mosques. Far more indicative of Iraki public opinion is what is said in the small neighbourhood mosques, and the mosques in the Qadhas. What is being said there by Sunni and Shia alike is that the rape of any Iraki woman is a crime that calls for vengance and the blame is being laid squarely where it belongs, at the feet of the American people whose government and army has repeatedly raped our land and its people.
Do you think it is an accident that we call your army “the rapist army?” Do you think that rape of Abeer was the only such committed by your troops? Do you think that the rapes being committed by the puppet army of your puppet government are the only such?
Enjoy your surge – your puppet government will not last long now. The choice was yours, you chose to invade, you chose to permit your soldiers behave infinitely worse than Saddam ever did, you chose to set up a rigged election, when even that did not work for you you got rid of your first puppet Al Jaafari, and demanded that Al Maliki be put in his stead.
Enjoy your surge. It will not be long now. As for me, I shall content myself with repeating what my young colleague Mohammed the son of Laith the Imam says:
Predators can become prey.
I am looking forward to going hunting, it will be quite like the old days.
Saba Ali Ihsaan,
Baghdad,
Irak.
Another woman’s rape claims put Iraqi government in fresh quandary
By Wathiq Ismael
Baghdad, Feb 23, (VOI) – An Iraqi woman from the northern city of Talaafar has complained that a number of Iraqi army soldiers took turns raping her after they arrested her from her house in an attempt to wring confessions out of her on persons wanted by security agencies.
Wajida Mohammed Amin al-Jimaili, 41, said a force raided her house one morning and asked her about wanted people from her family.
“When I said I did not know their whereabouts, the four soldiers led me to another house and raped me,”
Jimaili told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) on Friday.
Jimaili, the mother of 11 children, said she resides in the neighborhood of al-Qadissiya, in the Ninawa province district of Talaafar.
“My husband and brothers are all detained and only women are left in the house,” she said.
On the reason why she did not report the rape to the authorities, Jimaili said she was threatened to be killed if she reported on the incident.
In the first official confirmation on the incident, Brig. Nijm Abdullah al-Juburi, the chief of the Talaafar municipality, said an Iraqi army officer and three soldiers were arrested for involvement in the rape that was officially reported on Wednesday.
The reported rape was the second revealed in less than one week. The confessions would put the Iraqi government in an awkwardly embarrassing situation.
The first rape case was reported by a woman named Sabrin al-Janabi of Baghdad. She had said a few days earlier that she was raped by Iraqi policemen to force her to give confessions.
Jimaili’s confessions are expected to spark wide-scale reactions against the Iraqi government, which leads a massive security campaign in a bid to control a deteriorating security situation in the country.
Despite the denouncing and local as well as international calls on the Iraqi government to start investigating Janabi’s claims, the government denied that the rape had occurred in the first place, saying that the investigations proved that Janabi’s claims were groundless.
In an unexpected reaction, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has honored the persons accused of raping Janabi, describing them as “honorable.” Iraqi political circles, however, insisted that Janabi had been raped.
They said the medical report issued by the U.S.-supervised Ibn Sina hospital in Baghdad’s green zone confirmed the occurrence of rape to Janabi, which was argued by the prime minister’s office.
In a step that perhaps mirrored the Iraqi presidency’s distrust in the results of the government’s probe, the office of Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashimi said in a statement on Thursday that a “commission of the presidency’s human rights office will supervise the course of investigations in coordination with the Iraqi government.”
So far the Iraqi government did not comment on the Jimaili’s rape claims.
Link to Baghdad-Rape (Feature) :: Aswat al Iraq English Language
