👉 The Video shows Almeda factory– the largest textile manufacturer in Tigray– reduced into ashes by the Nobel Peace Laureate duo Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia and Isias Afewerki of Eritrea after looting what they could.
Disturbing to hear the most unEthiopian ‘Ethiopia’ army thinks rape in war is just inevitable and ‘not manageable, so it could be expected’. These evil criminals, wow!
Rape, as with all terror-warfare, is not exclusively an attack on the body- it is an attack on the ‘body-politic’. It’s goal is not to maim or kill one person but to control an entire socio-political process by crippling it. It is an attack directed equally against personal identity and cultural integrity.
The use of rape as a weapon is one of the most violent and humiliating offences inflicted on the enemy, the brutalization of rape permanently scars the victim’s mind, soul and often body. Rape is often used as a predecessor to murder, where others survive only to serve as daily reminders to those around them of the tragedies of war.
Victims are shunned by their families and communities and many become pregnant as a result of their rapes. Rape leaves a permanent reminder of war and of the enemy through the birth of a child, which places both the mother and child in continual victimization and isolation. Rape as a weapon of war affects not only the rape victim, but their entire family, village and community. While rape as a weapon of war continues today, many of the psychological effects have yet to be felt in many communities around the globe.
In war there are many weapons that may be employed and while the Kalashnikov or IED may be favored arms in modern warfare, there is one weapon all men carry and more often use. Men are choosing to use their bodies as weapons – in fact their manhood – to attack. The victim is raped in an effort to dehumanize and defeat the enemy, leaving an entire society with long-term suffering as victims cascade across generational divides. The scourge of rape as a weapon, affects not only the individual lives of the victims, but the entire family and community in which they live. Leaving their lasting marks on the entire country’s civil society, which in turn effects our globalized world.