The rape of girls in Zimbabwe
November 18th, 2005
This week’s edition of The Zimbabwean is now online. It carries an article that has shocked me to my core; namely, the rape of young girls and women in Zimbabwe. The figures are horrific:
“In Zimbabwe, 40 000 girls are raped annually before they turn 17,†Makoni said. “Every day, the Girl Child Network receives at least one report of a girl below 16 who’s been raped, with some victims as young as six months old. 350 rape cases have been reported to us so far this year.”
Zimbabwe has among the worst HIV/AIDS statistics in the world so, for many of these girls, rape will be a death sentence. But for the older girls it will be a death sentence possibly preceeded by the heartache and anguish of watching their sick babies die first. It makes me want to cry.
The Zimbabwean also has an interesting article about mass desertions from the Zimbabwe National Army on its front page, with poverty and repression being cited as two key reasons. The Zimbabwean government is concerned: “In a desperate bid to stop the haemorrhage, the ZNA has confiscated the passports of many”; and, “A ZNA source said the army would deploy more military intelligence officers in Botswana and South Africa in an attempt to monitor the movements of the deserters”. The fear appears to be that disgruntled soldiers may join forces against the zanu-pf government.
November 18th, 2005 20:35
Dear God. This is terrible! Some people are really sickening!
November 19th, 2005 03:35
A bad situation, but the bad statisiics make it worse.
40,000 is an obviously made up number, made up to shock. At least one a day is bad enough, 350 per year to date is alarming; why make up numbers? It only discredits the whole story.
It would help to have comparisons. How many girls are raped in the USA each day, I’m sure more than one reported case. What would reported cases per capita look like compared to other nations?
Their government is worried? They are surely the source of their nation’s problems. They should be worried, and replaced.
If the problem were properly defined we could see what measures should be applied; compared to the many other bad things happening.
All this article does is raise digust and anger, and offers no logic to direct them.
November 21st, 2005 19:30
One of the comments suggests that the numbers are made up. Whether 400 or 40,000 it does not make any difference for that matter. What story or additional information would “reported cases per capita†tell or provide; this is purely an academic exercise that lead to nowhere. This is pedophilia and should be condemned viciously worldwide.
Let it be known that many of the coping behaviors and long term sequela of this sexual perversion have enormous public health, social and economic consequences worldwide and “one does not ‘just get over’ it, not even fifty years later.â€
What has been demonstrated in scientific literature is that traumatic and violent events such as this could lead to some risky behaviors (smoking, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, etc), and increased risk of some chronic diseases and psychological disorders (stroke, cancer, diabetes, obesity, suicide attempts, etc) later in life. These conditions are major causes of death worldwide.
There is there an urgent need to intervene: Absolutely!
See:http://grandioseparlor.blogspot.com/2005/11/pedophilia-costly-sexual-perversion.html
December 7th, 2005 03:44
those people are sick
May 13th, 2007 06:47
> here is there an urgent need to intervene
ah, yes: the rice bowl.
those who claim to be caring activists, are really just looking for a weekly paycheck in a desk job.
January 29th, 2009 02:43
If anyone doubts that Zimbabwe is hell on earth, check out the statistics for the country on the CIA factbook page.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/zi.html
Their inflation rate was 11.2 million percent in 2008!
They have a life expectancy of 44 years and a quarter of the population has aids.
No real democracy exists – just the pretence of one. The thugs in charge do what they like, which includes printing up worthless money with ever increasing denominations.
The money is so worthless that bathrooms literally have notices not to use banknotes as toilet paper (people use it because it is much cheaper than toilet paper). It costs billons of Zimbabwe dollars just to guy an egg.
In a nutshell, businesses are not allowed to conduct business without being molested by huge taxing governments and criminals, and there is no law and order.
Kicking the British out all those years ago was the biggest mistake Zimbabweans could have made.
Where are all the liberals who supported annexation? They were positive the blacks would be so much better off without those overbearing Brits. Yeah right. Now that the blacks live in the worst hell on Earth, the liberals have gone mute.
I’d be embarrassed too, if I were them.
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November 21st, 2005 11:59
[...] This is Zimbabwe has a horrific report on the huge numbers of girls that are raped annully in Zimbabwe……”In Zimbabwe, 40 000 girls are raped annually before they turn 17,†Makoni said. “Every day, the Girl Child Network receives at least one report of a girl below 16 who’s been raped, with some victims as young as six months old. 350 rape cases have been reported to us so far this year.†[...]