13 year old girl stoned to death for being gang-raped.

[Callisto]

www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24601633-5001021,00.html

Heard this on R4 just now and it makes me so angry. Who thinks that gang-rape is adultery fgs? It sums up Africa to me right now - the ignorance and superstition of men with aids raping babies in SA, the vile things done to women and children in the Congo, why is Africa so lost? How can the mysogynist fuckheads that are Islamic extremist hold such power over these people?

Evil flourishes when good (wo)men do nothing

say this in the paper on Sunday - really sickening poor girl

Spidermama - I used the words in the title quite deliberately. I'm fed up with people ignoring what is going on in the world. You might be having a shite day, but it is nowhere near as shite as the day this girl's father is having. Can you imagine trying to get justice for your child, only for the authorities to sentence your innocent child to death? Hiding our heads in the sand won't ever change anything and tbh this is now a country that is more interested in a couple of TV presenters than a humanitariam disaster so I doubt one could really call Britain a beacon of democracy and hope anyway (especially if you take into account the insidious rise of Sharia law in this country).

I'm so angry that shit like this happens anywhere. I can't believe feminism has died a death when we really need a strong, vocal sisterhood.

It is scary, one would (well i would) naturally assume it would be the older generations who were more "radicalised" or set in their ways - but worryingly it is the younger generations who take things to extremes.

But perhaps this has always been the case?

Is in an interesting topic, although perhaps taking us away from the tragic OP.

This makes me so sad. Is there anything we can do as a group? Or I am being incredibly naive?

so sad poor girl.

that is completely sick, in this day and age that tpye of thing should not be able to happen.

oh my good god

oh my god

i feel sick

shame

I cant even bring myself to read it either. Africa is a continent, not a country aswell. We cant just go starting world wars to try and calm everyone down The majority of the problems in SA are drug related

Callisto, thank you for bringing this to our attention. I feel quite embrassed that I criticised one of your threads the other day .

There is so much talk on MN at the moment about it not being the same blah blah blah and people leaving left right and centre. Yet MN is full of compassionate people who want to make a difference. You mentioned in an earlier post about contacting Amnesty International or lobbying MP's, and yet how many of us will actually do anything about this? Even though I am sure we are all incredibly moved and outraged about the story. Rather than moaning about how MN is not like the old days is there not anything that we can do as a group about such issues? Even if it was something as simple as a separate section on MN with sample letters to send to MP's. I don't know I am rambling really. Anyone?

Shocking and terrible. Poor girl and her poor family. I felt sick when I heard the Today programme.

I don't know what we can do but I guess supporting Amnesty would be a start? Kate thingy from them was on Today talking about this.

Spidermama - I know what you mean. I nearly went back under the duvet when I heard this this morning. But, if it helps, did you hear Lionel Blue's thought for the day yesterday? You could try and find it on listen again. I found it helpful.

Jesus wept!!

Thank god my dd's live here and not there. That sounds awful but the thought of it happening to them....

Disgusting!

What really saddens me is this won't cause 30,000 people to complain, it won't be the first story on BBC, or on the front of every newspaper for days.... But just think if she had said something immature on Radio 2. Then people would really be upset!

Off to donate something to Amnesty international, so I at least feel I've done something to help?

Remember when the situation in the Bulgarian orphanages was brought to attention by that documentary?

Enough people contacted their MEPs, MPs, whoever to actually have a campaign started and it has brought about improvements and a change in how those children were viewed. There was a thread on MN and a lot of people on here became involved.

So it can be done, small actions + lots of people = big change, as the saying goes.

It is a tragic world when the rapist goes free and the victim is punished.

Poor poor girl

Congo may not have oil reserves - I don't know to be honest- but it does have vast untapped mineral wealth which is presumably what fuels the conflict. There are fortunes to be made right now to whoever holds the lands in the south and east of the country.

It is thought to be the bloodiest conflict since WW11.

Sorry -this is ofo at a tangent from the original OP. But all these conflicts dressed up as tribal disputes etc are really only about men controlling wealth aren't they?

Oh my God. Some things we have to be made aware of. That little girl will be in my thoughts. I think I just have to digest things like this are a reality for some.

I feel so privileged and lucky to have my freedom. The fucking credit crunch everyone is on about- like it is the end of the world because we buy one Christmas gift instead of 5 .Big bloody deal. Sorry, I am deeply upset by that story.

Can't believe spidermama - you have the privilege of turning your head away. After all its not your child.

Sick sick sick of it. Wish I had speciall powers to hunt down these slugs and kill them myself. Slowly and dishonourably.

I used to work at a hospital in Uganda and while I worked there a woman starved to death in the hospital.

All patients are tended to by their famalies and this woman's family wouldn't care for her as she'd been raped. She'd been admitted with a pelvic fracture so couldn't get up and walk herself.

The local doctors wer equite embarrased by her and on ward round when I first saw her told me to ignore her. It took a lot of questioning before they told me the situation. It was very tempting to feed her myself, etc but as the doctors said she had no life once she'd been raped and would soon die on leaving the hospital.