Libya, the country in North Africa, has been hot potato since last March. Among all the demoratic uprising, this fight can be call the biggest and the most ugly one. Libya has unhororable record of the longest dictatorhip period, since Muammar el-Qaddafi ruled Libya in 1969.
But in February 2011, the democratic revolution erupted in several Libyan cities. It began with some antigovernment opponents in Benghazi, and it was spread to the capital of Tripoli. Sine NATO and the United Nations decided to involve this fight, the story doesnt seem to be ended.
As the phenomana is getting worse and as the Qaddafi government is being forced to stand on the edge, the oppression towards Libyan citizens by their govenment cannot be harsher. And recent accident showed us it reached a peak.
One Lubyan Woman made a speech in front of the foreign press, stating that she was raped by Libyan millitary force. and she proved her statement by showing the press her wounds. It illustrates that the human rights for Libyan women has been severly unerestimated.
According to Human Rights Watch, Libyan authorities are holding many women and girls in these facilities who have committed no crime, or who have completed a sentence. Some are there for no reason other than that they were raped, and are now ostracized for staining their families’ “honor.” Officials transferred the majority of these women and girls to these facilities against their will, while those who came voluntarily did so because no genuine shelters for victims of violence exist in Libya.
Since the fight they have been though is too harsh to take care of each human rights, we must not forget that all those struggles are in order to guarantee people's human rigths. Although Qaddafi goverment keep promising they will take care of their women and will reveal all innocent women prisoners, we will never gurantee that they will do what they said until this fight ends in victory of democracy.
Link : http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/world/middleeast/27tripoli.html?_r=1&smid=fb-nytimes&WT.mc_id=WO-SM-E-FB-SM-LIN-LWS-032511-NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=click
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