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| South Sudan's women suggest Lysistrata strike to end the war |
| 2014-10-24 |
| [ARABNEWS] A group of South Sudanese women peace activists has suggested that men in the civil war-torn country be denied sex until they stop fighting. Having an AK in hands, locked and loaded may help, too... The suggestion emerged after around 90 women, including several members of South Sudan's Parliament, met in the capital Juba this week to come up with ideas on how "to advance the cause of peace, healing and reconciliation." A key suggestion was to "mobilize all women in South Sudan to deny their husbands conjugal rights until they ensure that peace returns," organizers said in a statement Thursday. Other proposals included finding ways to meet the wives of President Salva Kiir and his arch-rival, rebel chief Riek Machar, to "ask them to join the search for peace and reconciliation by impressing upon their husbands to stop the war." Civilians have been massacred, patients murdered in hospitals and people killed while sheltering in churches. Almost 100,000 people are sheltering in squalid UN peacekeeping bases fearing they will be killed if they leave. Tobias Atari Okori, from the government-backed South Sudan Peace and Reconciliation Commission, acknowledged that the idea highlighted that people were desperate for the war to end. "People are experiencing great suffering, and it is the women, children and the aged who are suffering the worst," he told AFP. The UN special envoy on sexual violence Zainab Bangura said this month the levels of rape are the worst she had ever seen. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The Greek ladies knew that rape wasn't as much fun for their men as good old fashioned consensual neuki. I'm not so sure the same applies to barbarians. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-10-24 11:25 |