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The 2018 Nobel peace prize is awarded to a surgeon and a former slave (2.…
The 2018 Nobel peace prize is awarded to a surgeon and a former slave
1. Intro
Awarded 2018 Nobel peace prize
Fighting rape as weapon of war
Who?
Dr Denis Mukwege
(gynaecologist) &
Nadia Murad
(iraqui student)
When?
October 5th
2. Denis Mukwege
Change : flood of patients > violently raped/shot in genitals (war)
When he first saw injuries:
not only schoked by hardness
also pitiless planning behind
Where
? Congo
Couldn't believe: terrible plan = strategy
What?
Originally : complications during pregnancy
Operated some 20 000 survivors (Congo) during 20 years
3. Sexual violence
Organized
campaign mass rape
> terrorise the population
Some soldiers : do it because can get away w it (war)
During War eastern Congo > militia commanders :
sexual violence = war strategy
Congo: some male fighters > pretend they experience
uncontrolable urges for sexual gratification
Becoming horrifically common
3. Nadia Murad
Jihadists:
Seperated men/women
Murdered men (including 6 brothers/step-brothers)
Murdered older women (including her mother)
Took young women > sold as sex slaves
21 yo > Islamic State arrived in her village (2014)
Also Nobel peace price
1 of thousands women > violated by soldiers
4. Since
Escaped: sharing her story
sharing her story
urging the world to hold Islamic State accountable/genocide
Thanks to lobbying > United Nations : started an investigation