Rape Repression,Marxist Aesthetics
Palash Biswas
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West Bengal Capitalist marxist Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said the state cannot afford to miss the opportunity to have a chemical hub, even though the opposition at Nandigram has left the government looking for an alternative location! Meanwhile, Asansol is the third and latest region in West Bengal after Singur and Nandigram where villagers are resisting the government's Land Acquisition drive!Indian Maoist rebels, known as Naxalites, stepped up operations June 26-27 in their strongholds in eastern India, bringing much of the region to a standstill. As we expected, the Naxalites have seized upon the grievances of peasant farmers and tribal groups directly affected by the Indian government's push to develop special economic zones. Though Indian politicians and security officials are quick to play up their successes against the Naxalites and brag about increasing Maoist defections, India's security apparatus cannot contain the Naxalite movement, which is directly benefiting from a widespread rise in social agitation across rural India.
States get 60-day deadline to clear SEZ proposals
Economic Times, India - 26 Jun 2007
NEW DELHI: The Centre has warned state governments that if pending state approvals for proposed SEZ projects are not granted within 60 days, the proposals ...
30 Years Of Bengal Left Front Government Commemorated
People's Democracy - 9 hours ago
A PACKED Indoor Stadium in downtown Kolkata listened to addresses by senior CPI(M) and Left Front leaders as they looked back on the 30 years of pro-people ...
K’taka SEZ makes farmers uneasy
Daily News & Analysis, India - 10 hours ago
Earlier this month, the Karnataka Cabinet had approved a private multi-project SEZ on 12350 acres of land at Nandagudi hobli, 40 km from the tech city and ...
Hooghly (West Bengal), June 30: A 12-hour shutdown by the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) following the arrest of its Hooghly leader has brought work at the Tata Motors small car project in Singur to a standstill.
Work on sewerage lines of the project was reportedly disrupted after labourers abstained from work.Roads remained deserted.Market and educational institutions also remained closed due to the protest over the arrest of Party's zonal committee secretary Suhrid Dutta for his alleged involvement in the murder of an anti-land acquisition protestor Tapasi Malik.
Dutta was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and remanded to custody till July 11.
Has Singur rocked only the ministers of the state cabinet? Well, it has perhaps left a deep imprint on the minds of the state’s bureaucrats too. This was evident today when a sports organisation from Hooghly district returned empty handed after it approached the state’s commissioner general, land reforms, Mr AK Patnaik to be present as chief guest.
The commissioner general primarily refused to go to Hooghly citing the district is very troublesome these days. Mr Bimal Kumar Palit, the secretary of Hooghly District Kho Kho Association, who came to invite Mr Patnaik, for a programme of his association in Arambagh next month, said he doesn’t want to go to Hooghly right now because it has become troublesome over the past few months. Actually, we had organised a programme in Rishra and he didn’t attend the programme showing the same reason.”
However, IAS officers at Writers’ Buildings said that they were avoiding Hoogly district especially when it is not a government programme because political situation is very volatile there as Singur impasse could not be solved as yet. And they don’t want to face any kind of embarrassment by visiting the district in a vulnerable time like this. n SNS
Tata Tele to invest Rs 125 crore in Kolkata
Business Standard, India - 21 hours ago
Tata Indicom, at present, operates in West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Orissa in eastern India. Bulk of its investment would be in putting up more ...
Tata Indicom plans Rs 436cr investment in east Financial Express
Indicom to invest Rs 436cr in east Calcutta Telegraph
More SEZ tax sops come under threat
Financial Express, India - 18 hours ago
This may hurt export competitiveness of many SEZ units. These services include logistics, transportation and related activities. ...
Noose around SEZs tightened Financial Express
Front partners silent as Reliance bags favours
Express News Service
Kolkata, June 29: A few rules have been relaxed for Reliance Industries Ltd, which has got the green signal from the Left Front to acquire the 76-year-old Park Circus municipal market for renovation and redevelopment.
At the June 25 meeting of the 141-member municipal House, Mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya got the ambitious “public private partnership” cleared by 64 votes to 34, after securing the
support of the deal’s dissenters — the Forward Bloc, RSP and CPI.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=243600
In the Asia-Pacific region, national statistics on rape for many countries are difficult to obtain. Table 1 highlights the extent of the problem in the respective countries which could well include a significant rise in the different kinds of rape, such as gang rape, police rape and rape of the young. In Bangladesh for example, in 1997, an estimated 753 cases of rape had been reported, out of which 255 cases were gang rapes. There has also been incidence of women in detention being raped by police personnel. In Malaysia, 55.85 per cent of rapes (1,323 cases) in the same year involved under 16-year olds. In the Philippines, it is estimated that a rape occurs every day and that half of the inmates on death row are rapists.
http://www.aworc.org/bpfa/pub/sec_d/vaw00001.html
1971 Bangladesh atrocities
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The 1971 Bangladesh atrocities refer to the widespread killings and displacement of civilians in Bangladesh (East Pakistan at the time) and widespread violations of human rights including rape carried out during the Bangladesh War of Independence of 1971 by the Pakistan Army with support from political and religious militias. In Bangladesh, the atrocities are identified as a genocide. [1][2] The actual death toll, motives, extent, and destructive impact of the actions of the Pakistani forces are disputed. Bangladeshi authorities and some independent organisations assert that between 1-3 million people were killed, while another 10 million fled the country to seek safety in India.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_atrocities
Women Suffer Untold Violence and Repression in U.S.-Occupied Iraq
Interview with Yifat Susskind, communications director with MADRE and author of a report on violence against Iraqi women, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
YIFAT SUSSKIND: Iraqis really have faced two inter-related crises since the U.S. invasion. One is, of course, the civil war and the sectarian cleansing that we’ve heard so much about. And another we’ve heard much less about, and that is this a very directed campaign of violence against women. The fact is that the systematic attacks on women and the sectarian cleansing are deeply intertwined. One of the things that MADRE was warning about back in 2005 when the Iraqi constitution was being drafted is that a lot of the provisions in the constitution that set the stage for sectarian conflict also inscribed what we’ve been calling gender apartheid – in other words, separate sets of laws, separate and unequal laws, for men and women on the basis of gender. All the articles of the constitution use sharia, or clerics’ interpretations of Islamic law, as the basis for national legislation in Iraq under the new constitution. It allows people who are unelected – in some cases self-appointed – religious authorities to de
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00217.htm
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We see no difference between Progressive Left ruled Bengal and rest of Asia Pacific region including US invaded Iraq and afganistan as far as the crime against woman is concerned. The comrador comrades of MNC RAJ and Hindu Zionist Imperialism adopt the most ancient method of Repression against Anti Land People`s popular Resistance in West Bengal!As the CBI tightened its noose on CPI-M zonal committee secretary Mr Suhrid Dutta and zeroed down on other suspects in the Tapasi Malik murder case, the party’s state leadership in Kolkata made a desperate attempt to salvage the situation.As Mr Dutta was being produced in the Chandernagore court, where an angry mob bayed for his blood and clashed with Left cadres, CPI-M state secretariat members met at Alimuddin Street to find a way out of the crisis. With Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee away in north Bengal and Mr Biman Bose on a trip to the USA, acting state secretary Mr Benoy Konar and other senior leaders decided to defend Mr Dutta and deploy a panel of five lawyers for him. They also instructed the Hooghly unit to organise rallies and processions in support of Mr Dutta.“I won’t comment on the accused because the case is lying before court. However, our party thinks this is a political conspiracy. Otherwise, why would anyone drag the victim’s body to the site of the Tata factory”, said Mr Jyoti Basu as he emerged from the meeting. It was apparent that the nonagenarian leader was not too keen to pass any judgment on the prime accused.
IT IS RAPE Repression!
Siliguri, June 30: The Opposition's hue and cry over Singur and Nandigram would not adversely affect investment prospects in West Bengal, state Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said here on Saturday. Addressing a press meet after inaugurating a flyover, Bhattacharjee said despite criticism of his government by the opposition, investors believed that a positive environment had been created in West Bengal and the state was receiving investment offers and queries on a regular basis. He urged the opposition not to oppose projects meant for the development of the state and for creation of employment for the jobless.
Speaking about closed tea gardens in North Bengal, he said the government was trying to reopen two in the hills and 14 in the dooars. The government was providing relief to workers of closed gardens through different schemes and would continue to do so till they reopened.
In Kolkata, Miss Mamata Banerjee alleged that the CPI-M is pressurising the CBI to restrain them from digging into the Tapasi Malik murder case. She was addressing a rally at the Iisco Steel Plant gate at Burnpur in support of the fasting Purusottampur villagers. She said: “The CPI-M had been alleging that the Opposition was conspiring against their so called industrialisation bid by putting forward the issues like Tapasi Malik’s rape and murder. Now, with the arrest of their party leaders the actual matter has come to light.”
She said: “They are now trying to influence the CBI by blackmailing the UPA. It is their tradition. They use pressure tactics on the Election Commission by bringing false charges each time.” She said: “At Cooch Behar and at Jagacha, Howrah, the Marxist cadres have killed two more minors and we have already sent a team headed by Mrs Sonali Guha to Cooch Behar to organise a movement against the brutal murder of a minor girl there.”
“it cannot be explained otherwise how Tapasi’s body could be dumped in Tata Motors small car project area”
The CPI-M has been caught with its pants down in Singur and this time it does not even have the proverbial fig leaf to cover its shame
Mr. Basu’s CPI-M was exposed for its treason by the CIA and now in Singur it has been exposed for its Doublethink
“it cannot be explained otherwise how Tapasi’s body could be dumped in Tata Motors small car project area”
The CPI-M has been caught with its pants down in Singur and this time it does not even have the proverbial fig leaf to cover its shame
Mr. Basu’s CPI-M was exposed for its treason by the CIA and now in Singur it has been exposed for its Doublethink
Rape Repression is the latest Marxist aesthetics and that is why Tapasi Malik the voice of Singur Anti Land Acquisition muhim was killed after gang rape by CPIM Gestapo of indiscriminate Urbanisation and Industrilisation in accordance with Post modern Manusmriti! This mode of sexuality is rape, but it is certainly not the only sort of rape there is. Some rape explicitly is an overt tool of terror and social control, for example the systematic and widespread rape campaigns by soldiers in the wars that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia or the ongoing civil wars in West Africa.As was also the case in Armenia and Nanjing, Bengali women were targeted for gender-selective atrocities and abuses, notably gang sexual assault and rape/murder, from the earliest days of the Pakistani genocide. Indeed, despite (and in part because of) the overwhelming targeting of males for mass murder, it is for the systematic brutalization of women that the "Rape of Bangladesh" is best known to western observers.
Bengal agariran Resistance is led by Women of Nandigram and singur. tapasi Malik represent them! Even the political lead is vested in another woman, the fire brand lady from Bengal, MS Mamat Bannerjee. Apolitical leadership enters the field with Medha Patkar, Arundhati roy, Shaoli Mitra, Aparna Sen, Joya Mitra, anuradha Talwar! We may understand the psyche of the crime committed against humanity and civilisation in Singur, if we have hearts to feel and minds to understand! Thus, we are learning that rape –that vilest of crimes- is being used as an instrument of political repression and torture.
An all out war seems to have broken out in Kolkata with the CPI(M) and the Trinamool Congress leaders at logger heads over the arrest of 2 CPI(M) workers in connection with the murder of an activist in Singur.
The 12 hour bandh which was called by CPI(M) ended this evening. However, during the bandh most shops and educational institutions remained closed and most vehicles remained off the road.
During the day CPM workers setup road blocks on national Highway No. 6 and disrupted traffic across the city, but apart from these roadblocks, no other untoward incidents were reported.
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee continued her tirade against the West Bengal government. She also visited the murdered activist Tapashi Mallik’s home on Friday night demanding nothing short of capital punishment for those arrested.
The West Bengal Congress accused the CPI(M) of trying to influence the investigations by CBI into the Tapasi Mallik murder case by making allegations that a conspiracy was afoot.
"It is ridiculous that the top CPI(M) leadership has spoken of an anti-government and anti-Tata project conspiracy immediately after the CBI arrested two party activists in the Tapasi Malik murder case. The party is trying to influence the investigations being carried out by the CBI," WBPCC general secretary Manas Bhuiyan told a press conference here.
CPI(M) veteran leader Jyoti Basu had yesterday said that that it was a political conspiracy to stop the Tata motors project at Singur and to malign the Left Front government.
Criticising the CPI(M) for enforcing a Bandh at Singur over the arrests which affected the work of the Tata project there during the day, Bhuiyan said, "Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee often accuses the opposition of being an impediment to the Tata project. He owes an explanation for his own party's action today."
He also pointed to the dichotomy between Bhattacharjee's statement on June 26 that the culprits in the murder case should be punished and Basu claiming that it was a political conspiracy.
Bhuiyan, who is also the leader of the state legislature party, said Congress would seek an explanation from the Chief Minister in the matter in the assembly "when the extended budget session begins on July two".
"It is unfortunate that the CM and his party leaders are speaking in two voices on the CBI arrests in the Tapasi murder case," he said.
The Congress leader said his party wanted the CBI to complete the investigations and take action in the murder case and also in the Nandigram 'genocide'.
He claimed that under the Left regime, the people had lost faith in the CID "which has been turned into an instrument to protect killers".
Citing an example, he said the CID had failed to chargesheet the 10 people arrested by the CBI after March 14 police firing and violence at Nandigram. "The CID has lost credibility." The charred body of Tapasi, who was in the fore front of the movement launched by Trinamool Congress-led 'Save Farmland Committee' against "forcible" acquisition of land for Tata motors was found on December 18 last year inside the project land. She was allegedly raped before being killed.
Thirty years of Marxist regime in West Bengal sustaining caste Hindu Rule over Bangla Nationality turns the Bengali speaking geopolitics in another Killingfield after Bangladesh, where lacs of women were raped to sustain East Pakistani Military Regime. Now, it is no wonder that ruling Marxists have adopted the method of Rape and Murder to sustain the rotten Brahminical syatem for which they divided Bangla Nationality and Indian Nation! Buddhadev declares that he is going to celebrate the birth anniversary of Dr. BC Roy while his party takes a U-Turn denying the celebration which portrays well the Bengali brahminical fascist communalism which is the real Marxist aesthetics of the Bengali speaking Marxists! The dalit Bengalies scttered all over the world may not forget the history of partition and the role of Dr BC Roy, the Ivory Icon, who along with Pdt. Jawahar Lal Nehru asserted that refugees coming from East pakistan were not at all partition victims despite Noakhali experience. It is Dr BC Roy who drove away the dalit Bengali refugees, specially the militant Namoshudras and Paundras out of Bengali geopolitics. Now, Paranb Mukherjee tries to eject them out of Indian Nation depriving them citizenship and civil human rights countrywide. They tried to make Mukherjee the next President and failed. Thus, it is no surprise that CPIM gets shelter in the capitalist wings of Dr BC Roy as the industrial policies adopted by ruling Left Fron are reminiscent of DR BC Roy! Some day, they will also celebrate the birth days of Atulya Ghosh and Prafulla Chandra Sen! No wonder.
What about severe repression? What about ruthless invaders who just keep killing people at the least hint of resistance? What can be done to stop a programme of total extermination? How can social defence possibly work against repressive regimes such as the dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin? We have not seen Hitler. We did not live the fascist experience of Europe! But we may not regret as the Left as well as the Right in India adopt the fascist ideology under desguise of post modern Manusmriti,globalisation and corporatisation of polity and politics!
Naxal Revolution: Singur Tapasi Malik(16 years) - Raped and burnt ...At around 5:00AM on 18th of December 2006, Tapasi Malik the only young daughter of Monoronjan Malik, a sharecropper went out in the field to answer nature’s ...
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Hitler was an expert of misinformation campaign. So is the modern day Global order of Phoenix, US Imperialism. The Comradors do represent His Master`s Voice so well! Centered around imperialism and the push to expand its system over all or most of the earth, this "energetic" ideology employs the administrative and economic centralism that is the hallmark of modern American "liberalism," and the militarism and imperialism that is the hallmark of the modern "conservative," in a perfect synthesis of "left" and "right" that satisfies everyone and leaves the dissidents in the "far left" and "far right" margins. This is how our modern fascists can, with some justification, call themselves "centrists," and even "moderates."
After all, in Bizarro World, up is down, truth is a lie, and "democracy" means rule by a self-appointed elite. A Straussian is perfectly comfortable with this universal inversion: as for the rest of us, we'll just have to get used to it.One can easily see how the concept of the "noble lie" fits neatly into the neoconservative scheme of things, and the run-up to the Iraq war is surely a textbook example of the Straussian method in action: an enlightened elite deceives the public into an action that must be taken, after all, for their own good. In this case, we were lied into invading and occupying Iraq, for reasons that had nothing to do with "weapons of mass destruction" and Saddam's alleged links to al Qaeda and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, both of which the promulgators knew to be lies, and yet reiterated ceaselessly.
Victory In Iraq?
By Adil E. Shamoo & Bonnie Bricker
24 June, 2007
Fpif.org
While the American people are seeking a way to bring the troops home from Iraq, the President and his administration are aiming to stay for much longer by redefining “victory” in Iraq once again—this time as a permanent occupier. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters on June first this year that he favors a mutual agreement with Iraq in which “some force of Americans...is present for a protracted period of time....” Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, in charge of daily military operations in Iraq, supported this idea, comparing our involvement in Iraq to our continued military presence in South Korea. This type of “victory” was not what America signed up for as Bush led the nation to war. But even worse, this victory isn’t even realistic.
http://www.countercurrents.org/shamoo240607.htm
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Senior leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) and Finance Minister of West Bengal Asim Dasgupta said here on Friday that the recent “unfortunate” incidents at Nandigram had taught the Government that while land acquisition for industrialisation may not be a problem at the macro-level, it can be a sensitive issue at the micro-level.
“The total land required for the industrialisation programme of West Bengal may be less than one lakh acres and this may not be a major issue at the macro level. However, for the individual farmer, each piece of land is a sensitive issue. This is particularly true in a land-scarce State like ours. We have learnt this important lesson from the Nandigram incident,” Mr. Dasgupta said while speaking at a function organised here to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Left Front Government in West Bengal.
“We will be very careful now. We will acquire land only after thorough talks with the farmers. The West Bengal Government has expressed its regret over the police action at Nandigram. We have also made it clear that we have an open mind in exploring the possibility of further bettering the compensation package worked out for the farmers whose land would be acquired, though the present package is one of the best that has ever been worked out in the country,” he said.
Anti-Capitalism In
Five Minutes Or Less
By Robert Jensen
09 April, 2007
Countercurrents.org
We know that capitalism is not just the most sensible way to organize an economy but is now the only possible way to organize an economy. We know that dissenters to this conventional wisdom can, and should, be ignored. There’s no longer even any need to persecute such heretics; they are obviously irrelevant.
http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen090507.htm
CPI-M to return fund received for party organ
Thiruvananthapuram, June 30: Seeking to save the party's battered image over accepting funds from a lottery distributor, the state unit of CPI-M decided to return the Rs two crore it took for party organ `deshabhimani' from the dealer.
Under attack from opposition parties, CPI-M state committee, which met here today in the presence of party general secretary Prakash Karat, decided to return the amount received as refundable deposit for the development of its daily.
A party statement said CPI-M state secretariat had been entrusted to examine all the details regarding the four payments of Rs 50 lakh each to `Deshabhimani' about which allegations had been raised by the "party's enemies."
The funds were received as advances returnable with interest within a specific timeframe. This was done in a transparent manner. However, in view of ill-motivated attempts to tarnish the party, it has been decided to return the amount immediately, the party statement said.
Media expose of the party's daily receiving funds from the 'lottery king' had come as a big embarrassment for the party in the last few days. Opposition parties had raised the issue in the assembly and outside and demanded a CBI probe.
The party was put on the defensive as it was forced to retract its earlier statement that the fund collected was for the development bonds of `Deshabhimani.' later, the daily's general manager and CPI-M Central Committee Member E P Jayarajan said the fund was not received through bonds but as advances for carrying advertisements.
Panchayats Can Deny Permission For Field Trials Of GM crops
By Kavitha Kuruganti
21 June, 2007
Countercurrents.org
Genetically Modified (GM) or Genetically Engineered (GE) crops are trying to make their way into India across more than thirteen important crops. One such genetically modified crop – Bt Cotton – has already been allowed into the country.
The issue of GE crops is highly controversial and there is much evidence present about the adverse effects of GE crops on farming and other eco-systems, in addition to potential impacts on human health too, from across the world. The hasty thrusting of GM crops on Indian farmers, especially in the context of safer and affordable alternatives being practiced by thousands of farmers, raises questions about the need for such crops in the first instance.
Genetic Engineering is a process by which foreign genes from other living organisms are randomly inserted into the genome of a host organism (any plant or animal that the promoter wants to modify for some reason or the other, with profiteering through larger and larger markets being the common reason) with unpredictable and potentially hazardous results. Very often, only the expected benefits are hyped up and the potential problems glossed over without any sound assessment. This could lead to disastrous consequences for all life on this planet.
http://www.countercurrents.org/kuruganti210607.htm
When sex is shameful and rape victims are shamed, those victims are silenced -- and rape, by its taboo nature, becomes a problem we cannot address because we cannot talk about it sensibly. Contrariwise, in an atmosphere of sexual openness, we can talk openly of rape, and in doing so work more effectively against it. True sexual freedom includes the freedom to comfortably decline to participate in sexual activity every bit as much as it includes the freedom to participate. And as such, true sexual freedom is itself freedom from rape.
Universally rape has been used by various states as an instrument of repression directed against rebellious women; however, there is a cultural dimension to its use. In Iran during the Khomeini era, revolutionary women were raped before they were killed because according to their religious belief, virgin women if killed go to heaven. Hence, to make sure that they went to hell, they were subjected to rape before being killed. In Nepal, where virginity is worshipped in the form of Kumari Puja (the living Goddess of Nepal), virginity is valued as a symbol of purity, prestige and pride for unmarried Hindu women and hence, her family and community. Thus, the use of rape as an instrument of repression in Nepal is to make women culturally impure, frivolous, unfit for marriage, thus, shaming the whole family or community. With the influence of imperialist culture which thrives on pornography, blue films with all kinds of misogyny and sadomasochism messages, and intoxication with liquor consumption, all of which are made freely available for the reactionary armed forces, the political rape by the state has taken brutal dimensions. Thus, the very act of rape and its brutality represents how feudalism and imperialism reinforce each other to teach lessons to rebellious women.
Pl Read:
Alarming Rise Of Rape Incidents
A compilation from news reports and Dhaka based reports
http://www.hrcbm.org/NEWLOOK/Bhola_ajoy_mukto-mona.html
Quotations:
"Women are raped in Zion; virgins in the towns of Judah." Lamentations 5:11, from the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament)
For I [God] will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses looted and the women raped; half the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Zechariah 14:2, from the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament)
"I was playing jump-rope in front of my house when an automobile pulled over. I had never seen a car before in my village. When the driver offered me a ride, I, curious and naive, climbed in with my friend. Immediately, that car rolled on with us in it and then kept on going and going, never returning me to my village...." Ms. Kim Yoon Shim, a former "comfort woman," (sex-slave) about her abduction at the age of 14 by the Japanese military." 1
Rape during wartime:
Whenever there is an unbalance of power, the potential for rape increased.
Rape during war appears to have gone through three main stages:
In ancient times: rape was a reward to the victors: The Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) describes the rape of the women of conquered tribes as a routine act. Foreign woman were often kidnapped as spoils of war, and forced to marry their captors/rapists. This was probably typical behavior in the Middle East during that era. In ancient times, rape was considered to be a crime against the victim's father or spouse -- whoever owned her. "The ancient Greeks and Romans would rape and enslave women after they had conquered a city." 2
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