This is on CNN.com today, written by Eve Ensler. Excerpt:
“I was in Bosnia during the war in 1994 when it was discovered there were rape camps where white women were being raped. Within two years there was adequate intervention. Yet, in Congo, femicide has continued for 12 years. Why? Is it that coltan, the mineral that keeps our cell phones and computers in play, is more important than Congolese girls? [...] What is happening in Congo is the most brutal and rampant violence toward women in the world. If it continues to go unchecked, if there continues to be complete impunity, it sets a precedent, it expands the boundaries of what is permissible to do to women’s bodies in the name of exploitation and greed everywhere. It’s cheap warfare.”
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Not that this is quite on the same level, but it’s similar to the phenomenon of featuring attractive, white, middle-class missing women/children on the national news while ignoring the scores of missing women/children who do not fit into those categories.
No, it’s definitely connected I think, at least in some way. After World War II, there were trials for the men who used a handful of Dutch women as sex slaves, but the people responsible for the victimization of scores more Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and other Asian women weren’t brought to justice.
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