Drugged-up Gaddafi forces rape rebels
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CNN May 17, 2011
Security forces in Libya are allegedly using sexual enhancement drugs as a “machete” and gang-raping women they stop at checkpoints, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has said.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo said the court in The Hague will investigate allegations of institutionalized rape in the war-torn country.
“There are rapes. The issue is who organized them. They were committed in some police barracks. Were the policemen prosecuted? What happened?” he asked.
Moreno-Ocampo said the criminal court has information about women who were stopped at checkpoints and, because they were carrying the flag of the rebels, were taken by police and gang raped.
He also said there were reports of the use of male sexual enhancement drugs, which he called a “tool of massive rape.”
“There’s some information with Viagra. So, it’s like a machete,” he said. “It’s new. Viagra is a tool of massive rape.
“So we are investigating. We are not ready to present the case yet, but I hope in the coming month, we’ll add charges or review the charges for rapes.”
In late April, various media organizations reported that Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told a closed-door U.N. Security Council hearing that Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi has been distributing Viagra pills to his troops “so they go out and rape.”
Perhaps the best-known alleged rape case in Libya is that of Eman al-Obeidy (see WVoN story).
Al-Obeidy received worldwide attention on March 26, when she burst into the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli while journalists staying there were having breakfast.
She told reporters she had been taken from a checkpoint east of Tripoli and held against her will for two days while beaten and raped by 15 men loyal to Gaddafi.
While notable for the international attention it received, al-Obeidy’s case may not be an exception.
Moreno-Ocampo did not say how many women might have been raped in Libya since the start of the civil war.
“The shooting is in the public space. The arresting people is so massive, so pervasive,” said Moreno-Ocampo. “(But) what happens inside the barracks with women is more difficult to know.”
Rape is a worldwide problem in my county Mecosta Mi the numbers are higher then average. More men and women that rape get away with it then pay for it in jail. We have three young women in my family that were raped and all three cases NOTHING was done about it???? How can this be happing to so many of us yet nothing is done in our own country?? Last I checked its not the land of the free to rape!! One of the perps that walks free due to having to prior record worked in our local roller rink until I had to let them know and they still kept him because he had no record!! Now he works at our local old folks home. Lord knows he is one of many I pray for help to change this world wide problem their are way to many victims of rape with no closure !!! My family deserves justice!!!