Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

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Some of the answers, of course, must come from the perpetrators. And it is mainly – but not only – men who descend to this depravity, although we read about a women’s development minister who facilitated rape in Rwanda. And, increasingly, men are also targeted; reports reveal Syrian prisons daubed with the blood of countless victims of torture, including sexual abuse. Lamb turns to the accused she can find. But prisoners in Iraqi jails, the young Islamic State fighters awaiting trial, are, perhaps understandably, selective in their memory. Before I get into the review I’d like to disclaim that this is probably the hardest book I’ve ever read, a lot of stories in this book are to put it simply absolutely horrific. However that being said the fact that these stories are so hard to read is what makes the book so important, because these are real stories and happened to real people. Nonostante i crimini di guerra a sfondo sessuale restino spesso nell'ombra qualcosa sta cambiando. E' un percorso lungo, pieno di ostacoli e sicuramente non semplice. Ma qualche vittoria è stata ottenuta e l'indagine portata avanti da Christina Lamb ha anche lo scopo di far conoscere queste storie, di portare alla luce le voci femminili e di renderle importanti quanto quelle degli eroi di guerra. Perchè anche loro sono eroine, anche loro hanno sofferto e meritano giustizia, almeno meritano la nostra attenzione.

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The 15 chapters cover stories from the Middle East, Africa, South and East Asia, Latin America and Europe. We meet young Yazidi women traded as sex slaves by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the families of the Nigerian schoolgirls snatched by Boko Haram in 2014, Congolese infants who have been horrendously abused, kidnapped Argentine dissidents and bereaved parents, and elderly Filipina women who were imprisoned and raped by the Japanese Imperial Army almost a century ago. Lamb chronicles extraordinary tragedy and challenges in the lives of women in wartime. And none is more devastating than the increase of the use of rape as a weapon of war. Visiting warzones including the Congo, Rwanda, Nigeria, Bosnia, and Iraq, and spending time with the Rohingya fleeing Myanmar, she records the harrowing stories of survivors, from Yazidi girls kept as sex slaves by ISIS fighters and the beekeeper risking his life to rescue them; to the thousands of schoolgirls abducted across northern Nigeria by Boko Haram, to the Congolese gynecologist who stitches up more rape victims than anyone on earth. Told as a journey, and structured by country, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields gives these women voice. Our Bodies, Their Battlefields spans several different countries and instances where rape has been used as a weapon of war and conflict, whether it’s in the case of Yazidi women imprisoned by ISIS, or the Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria, or the Rohingya women fleeing genocide in Myanmar. With each of these cases, Lamb interviews survivors of atrocities, dedicating space to their harrowing individual stories in their own voices. She speaks to doctors, experts, lawyers and ordinary people, all pursuing justice for crimes that have for too long and too often gone unpunished. TIME spoke to Lamb about her experience of foreign reporting, survivors’ pursuit of justice, and what gives her faith in humanity. TIME: Histories and contemporary reporting on conflict is usually dominated by white men. What gets lost when we only have one set of voices telling these stories? It is more or less and introduction to many of the conflicts and wars of history that used sexual assault as a weapon. One of the earliest events mentioned in the Sabine women all the way up to what is happening in Burma. Prievartaujama ne grupiškai, o masiškai, po keliasdešimt kartų tą pačią moterį, vyrą, vaiką, prievartaujama iki mirties, paprievartavus žudoma, prievartaujamos ir nužudytos.Olin valmis selleks, et "Our Bodies, Their Battlefields" tuleb karm lugemine, aga tegelikkus oli ikka palju hullem. Vahepeal panin raamatu käest ja lihtsalt vaatasin enda ette, sest ei suutnud edasi lugeda. Mitu korda tulid külmavärinad ja pisarad silma. Ja see viha... Many of the experiences shared with you in the book are traumatic, and we know from studies, even studies that have focused on COVID-19, that there is a psychological toll of covering trauma on journalists. What has the impact been like for you? At times, Lamb worries that she is being intrusive, but she is also careful not to be credulous. An experienced journalist, she can tell when something doesn’t smell right – one Rohingya woman in a camp in Bangladesh has a long story that doesn’t add up. In the age of #MeToo, the impetus is to believe women and on the whole, she – quite rightly – does, while never losing her journalistic rigour. The litany of pain she recounts is all too believeable. I know because I have heard it too. Christina Lamb is a well-known journalist and author. She worked on I Am Malala and few other big-name projects. She has spent much of her professional life in war zones, reporting on crises and the like, and in this book she openly talks about her motivations for writing about this topic, as well as the emotional fatigue she dealt with while interviewing, researching, and writing. Both of these things prevented the narrative from every straying into the dusty, scholarly halls that some books of this nature wander down. Lamb’s personal interest, and the emotional toll it took, was clear throughout the book. Due to that, her narrative was personal, and it was probably that personal element that made it feel all the more jarring as I read. Working as a female journalist in conflict zones, these were the stories I most dreaded covering, with their bleak facts and bleaker outlook. Women were victims first of the individual crimes against them, and then of the strictures of their societies.

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A wake-up call ... These women's stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.' Amal Clooney O vertinant tiesiog kaip kūrinį, knygos stilių, tai nejučiomis lyginau su S. Aleksijevič darbais ir pastarieji man skaitėsi įdomiau nei Ch. Lamb knyga. This is a really important issue. We’re not trained as psychologists or trauma specialists, but very often, we’re the first people to speak to victims or survivors of terrible things. A good example is the Rohingya. They’re fleeing into Bangladesh, and we’re all there taking notes on all these terrible atrocities. I think it’s actually really important that there is some training for journalists, because the last thing you want to do to these people is re-traumatize them. They’ve already been through the worst possible thing that could happen to them. Is there a responsibility for readers, too, when reading these stories? Award-winning war correspondent Christina Lamb gives voice to the voiceless in this harrowing testimony from women in war zones ... [Lamb] posits a path forward to justice. Oggi, grazie alle nuove tecnologie e ai mezzi di comunicazione, nessuno può dire di non aver saputo. Chiudere gli occhi di fronte a questo dramma significa esserne complici. I responsabili di questi crimini non sono solo gli esecutori, ma tutti coloro che scelgono di voltarsi dallRape is as old as armed conflict but Lamb’s account amounts to much more than simply “bad things happen”. Her conclusion is clear: rape is a systematic weapon of war; this is not about individual abuses but deliberate military policy. There may be differences in the depth of premeditation, but looking the other way is a constant. This is his face and this is a link to his foundation that I support - https://www.mukwegefoundation.org/muk.... Speaking to survivors first-hand, Lamb encounters the suffering and bravery of women in war and meets those fighting for justice. From Southeast Asia where ‘comfort women’ were enslaved by the Japanese during World War Two to the Rwandan genocide, when an estimated quarter of a million women were raped, to the Yazidi women and children of today who witnessed the mass murder of their families before being enslaved by ISIS. Along the way Lamb uncovers incredible stories of heroism and resistance, including the Bosnian women who have hunted down more than a hundred war criminals, the Aleppo beekeeper rescuing Yazidis and the Congolese doctor who has risked his life to treat more rape victims than anyone else on earth.

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The atrocities in Our Bodies, Their Battlefields horrify, as they should. Lamb...does society a service by forcing us to look." Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari poses with released Nigerian schoolchildren who were kidnapped by Boko Haram. Photograph: Philip Ojisua/AFP/Getty PDF / EPUB File Name: Our_Bodies_Their_Battlefield_-_Christina_Lamb.pdf, Our_Bodies_Their_Battlefield_-_Christina_Lamb.epub

I was torn between the journalistic desire to know, the fear of what she might have to say, and above all the concern that telling her story would bring her more grief,” admits Lamb. There is also the uncomfortable truth that all too often even the most painful stories have had little power to provoke real change – a disquieting thought for all storytellers.

Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women review

She speaks with women in Bangladesh (Rohingya refugees), Argentina, Guatemala, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nigeria, and Rwanda.It led, in 1998, to rape being recognised as an instrument of genocide for the first time if there was a specific intent to destroy a particular group, and its first prosecution as a war crime in an international court. Christina Lamb has worked in war and combat zones for over thirty years. In Our Bodies, Their Battlefield she gives voice to the women of conflicts, exposing how in today’s warfare, rape is used by armies, terrorists and militias as a weapon to humiliate, oppress and carry out ethnic cleansing. Prisiekiu, rašau ir man oda šiurpsta kūnas vėl ir vėl. Baisu yra realiai suvokti tokius faktus, priimti tokias specialias organizacijas kaip, kad Kongas, baisu yra pagalvoti ir tai, kad 21a. tai vyksta!