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Iraqi Police Commit Rape – ­Armed, Trained, and Funded by the US - by Yifat Susskind

Iraqi Police Commit Rape – ­Armed, Trained, and Funded by the US - by Yifat Susskind: "The international news media is flooded with images of a woman in a pink headscarf recounting a shattering experience of rape by members of the Iraqi National Police. Most of the coverage has focused on her taboo-breaking decision to speak publicly about the assault, but has ignored the context for understanding­and combating­sexual violence by Iraqi security forces."
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*Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-based Violence and the US War in Iraq will be available at www.MADRE.org after March 6, 2007. For more information about the report, please contact MADRE at madre@madre.org or 212.627.0444.

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