This morning I read in the newspaper that in South Africa 80% of all children gets victim of rape. This figure is based on research and reliable estimations, because many rapes are not officially reported. How can this be consistent with my credo published in the right upper corner of this blog? As a matter of fact, the reapers are just as much to be pitied as their young victims are. Often they are young themselves and “simply” imitate what has occurred to them, that’s what the reporters of the bad news tell us. So the evil is passed through the generations. I also read that a company saw profit in it and sells a women-condom with sharp little hooks in it which can only be removed from the male organ by a doctor. But that doesn’t seem a solution, it can be dangerous because the raper can take revenge immediately.
The only thing we can do is put pressure on our politicians and support the international organization “rape crisis”. Their South African Department can be found on: http://www.rapecrisis.org.za
In the meantime we can only “reason by subtraction”: keep being positive, because if you don’t, the problem will be worse and nobody will be helped. It’s a challenge. Improve the world, start with yourself, is what I say to myself.
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2 comments:
This is a very sad post. Unfortunately, sexual exploitation is still far too abundant in our supposedly "enlightened" world. All of the technological wizardry in the world cannot cure the ailments of human hearts and souls. Only human compassion heals the victims and the victimizers (who have often been victims themselves). What is especially frustrating is that the same old problems of human nature must be addressed with each successive generation. Good and evil are always with us.
This is absolutely a devestating statistic! I have friends that live in South Africa and have said that rape is a way of life! Most go unreported. Most children are raped by family members. It's such an ingrained part of life - almost an expectation.
Any level of sexual abuse or exploitation is unacceptable.
It is evil - an ingrained generational evil that some how needs to be dealt with honesty by society as a whole.
Not only does it affect the child causing a life time of emotional damage, but reflects directly upon the level of violence and murder in that country.
I cry for the children! I cry for South Africa.
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