The Cries of Our Sisters...
Bismillah asalamu alaykum This is somewhat of a difficult topic to write about, because you would think that such things can't be happening, that no human could possibly have the heart to hand over another human being- at that, their sisters, neighbors, mothers, aunts, and cousins to men who only prey on the vulnerable citizens of the town. Lately, I have been hearing things more than I wanted to. I keep hearing about rape victims in Hargeysa and Mogadishu. What surprises me is not the actions of the rapists, but the silence of the citizens, and of the governments. Take for example the mother in Mogadishu that was reported to have been raped by AMISOM soldiers this week. Two somali local soldiers had come to her home and asked her to come with them because she was suspected of being a member of Al-Shabab. This was their ploy to lure her in into the darkness that she would be raped in. She is a mother of three children. They took her to the place where these amisom leaders were re...