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Is There an Army Cover-Up of
Rape and Murder of Women Soldiers?
The
Department of Defense statistics are alarming -
one in three women who join the US military will be sexually
assaulted or raped by men in the military.
28 April 2008
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Rapists in the ranks
41% of female veterans seen at the clinic say they were victims
of sexual assault while in the military, and 29% report being
raped during their military service.
31 March 2008 |
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Who Do We Serve God
or Our Government? What is A Life Worth?
By Reverend Dorothy H.
Mackey, STAAAMP, Exec. Director
24 February 2008 |
A
Message from the Women of Okinawa
You think that because the US
military shed blood to seize Okinawa in World War II, the place
belongs to you and you can do anything you want here, don't you.
21 Feb 2008 |
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Japanese protest
after US soldier arrested for alleged rape
Staff Sergeant Tyrone
Hadnott was arrested on Monday on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old
local girl on Sunday night.
13 Feb 2008 |
Why Canada Should Not Take the USA Off Its Torture List -
Written by a US Citizen!
"The
Marine Corps and all military services don’t care to get the
VIOLENT and catastrophic damages that rape does to the
individual."
Reverend Dorothy H.
Mackey Former US Air Force Captain and Commander
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January 2008 |
Lauterbach Allowed to be Raped and Murdered Re-Ignites Demand
and Urgency In Calling For STAAAMP’s Independent In
The rape of Lance Cpl Lauterbach, and failure by command to
protect her began from the beginning. Luaterbach’s strength to
pursue the rape charges in a courts martial was surely not liked
by command leadership even to DC.
18 January 2008 |
US.
Marine sentenced to 40 years' jail in landmark rape case in
Philippines.
A U.S. Marine faces 40 years in jail after being convicted of
rape in a landmark case that has become a symbol for women's
rights and national sovereignty in the Philippines.
6 December 2006 |
Sex-Assault
Continues Unchecked in Congo
A woman is gang-raped by six
soldiers, in front of her husband and children, while their companion
assaults her 3-year-old daughter. A United
Nation's peacekeeper trades a desperate woman two eggs for sex.
17 March
2005
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I
reported the rape within 30 minutes - then watched my career
implode
After a one-day trial, the man who attacked her was fined one
month's pay. 25
October 2004
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US
soldiers accused of raping 100 colleagues
Our women
soldiers sometimes have more to fear from their fellow soldiers
than from the enemy
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February 2004
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Rapes
reported by servicewomen in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere
I don't get a
sense of outrage by military leadership. 26
February 2004
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Returning
female GIs report rapes
She recalled waking to a
man raping her. She said the man cut her with a knife and hit her
with an object between the eyes, again knocking her unconscious.
25
January 2004
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Sex
abuse at US air force academy
America's
air force academy yesterday confronted devastating evidence that it
presided over a training regime that was hostile to women, with nearly
70% of female cadets reporting they had been
sexually harassed, and nearly 20% sexually
assaulted.
30 Aug 2003
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Male
(and female) rape in the military
"I didn't report anything. . . . They told me if I said
anything I was dead. After I got up off the floor, I stood in the
shower for three hours trying to wash the way I felt. I felt dirty
and shameful" 2003 |
Kenyan women and young men
raped by British soldiers
Some have remained silent for 30 years. But now the Samburu and Masaai
women, as well as their young men, are coming forward to tell their
stories: how they were raped and sodomised by British soldiers on
manoeuvres in northern Kenya. 15 July 2003
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Kenyan
'rape victims' win legal aid to sue MoD
Some
650 women are taking part in the suit, which alleges that the MoD
did nothing to stop systematic rape by soldiers despite complaints
dating back for 30 years. 2 July 2003 |
Academy
Board heard of abuse 20 years ago
The
review, by The Denver Post found that the 15-member
Board of Visitors, charged with presiding over morale and discipline at
the academy, did not pursue reports of sexual assaults and asked few
questions. 16 June
2003 |
Domestic
violence in the military
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75 to 84 percent of alleged offenders are honorably
discharged.
* Less than 7 percent of spouse abuse cases are
adjudicated by court-marital. Undated |
Sexual
assault pervasive in Military
Many
women tell me that sexual assault is considered a rite of passage
in the service, and they're treated like the black sheep of the
family when they ask for accountability."
Undated |
200 new rape claims by Kenyan women against British soldiers
The number of women who claim they were raped by British soldiers in Kenya over the past 20 years has doubled to more than 400, with lawyers investigating more than 200 new allegations this week.
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May 2003 |
Raped
in the military
The
Air Force has acknowledged that at least 56 current and former
female cadets were sexually assaulted over the last decade, and
that many hesitated reporting the attacks for fear it would
compromise their military careers. 25
March 2003 |
Rapes
at the Air Force academy
The
number of female Air Force Academy cadets who say they were
sexually assaulted and then reprimanded for reporting it has
increased to 12 ( . . .) "whatever the
number is, 25, 50, there are probably a hundred more that we do
not see," Air Force Secretary
James Roche said during a hearing of the Senate Armed
Services Committee. 22
February 2003 |