Saturday, April 28, 2007

some research reflecting the violence of humans

Rape
One of the most serious case was the rape in NanJing, China during WWII.(1937 and 1938) The Japanese were responsible for the massive levels of rape among the Chinese population. over 20,000 women were raped and when soldiers were not raping women, they took great pleasure in forcing fathers to rape their daughters and sons to rape their mothers. in total it is estimated that 80,000 women were raped.-shocking huh?
During the last months of WWII, millions of women were raped by Russian soldiers. As soon as the Red Army entered into East Prussia and Silesia, female aged from 10 to 80 were raped. Anthony Beevor wrote in his book titled, Berlin-- the downfall 1945, that he was shaken to the core to discover that even their own Russian and Polish women that were liberated from German concentration camps were violated.
Other cases includes:
1994: Rwanda, Hutu leaders ordered their troops to rape Tutsi women as part of their genocidial campaign
1998: Indonesia security forces allegedly raped ethnic Chinese women during a spate of major rioting
More than 20,000 Muslim girls and women were raped during the religiously motivated atrocities in the formerYugoslavia in Bosnia. Their aim was to make women pregnant and raise their child as Serbs. Another was to terrorize women to make them flee the country.


CHILD ABUSE
physical abuse
  1. unexplained or repeated injuries such as bruises or burns
  2. injuries with the shape of the object such as the buckle of the belt
  3. injuries not likely to happen given the age or ability of the child (child who is unable to walk having broken bones)
  4. Disagreement between child and parent explanation of injury
  5. unreasonable explanation of injury
  6. obvious neglect of the child (malnutritioned, inappropriate clothes, lack of dental or health care etc)
  7. fearful behaviour
In a government study, two out of every three children are physically abused

Emotional abuse
  1. agressive or withdrawn behavior
  2. shying away from contact with parents or adults
  3. afraid to go home
Sexual abuse
  1. child tells that he/she was sexually harrased
  2. physical signs (difficulty in walking or sitting etc)
  3. behavioral signs (withdrawing from activities in class)
  • Commissioned by the Ministry of Women and Child development, the studies say that 53% of surveyed children reported one or more forms of sexual abuse
  • Studies also showed that almost 53,000 children died worldwide as a result of homicide.
  • Up to 80-98% of children suffer from physical punishment at home, a third or more suffering much more severe punishment.
  • 150 million girls and73 million boys under the age of 18 experienced forced intercourse or sexual violence during 2002.
  • between 100 to 140 million women in the world have gone through some form of genital mutilation. in Egypt, sub-sahara Africa and Sudan, 3 million women are subjected to this mutilation
  • 1.8 million children were forces into prostitution and 1.2 million were victims of trafficking
Children will suffer and showcase some behavorial, emotional and physical effects. such as, depression, low self-esteem, alientaion from others, injury, death,delinquency, suicidal attempts, agressive behaviour etc

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