Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1999 — Page 8
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By KATY SALMON NAIROBI (IPS) - Since the Sierra Leonean peace treaty was signed on July 7, the Forum for African Women Educators (FAWE) has been busy making plans to help young girls return to school and resume normal lives. During the past nine years of civil war, thousands of girls have been abducted and raped by rebels soldiers. Others have lived as rebel “wives” or fought as female combatants. Today, only a third of schools are open and an estimated 75 percent of children are not receiving any education. To illustrate the nightmare young girls have been living through, FA WE’s chair, Christiana Thorpe, describes the recent experience of her brother and his 17-year-old daughter when rebels invaded Freetown in January. ‘Two of the rebels entered their house at around 10 p.m., saw the girl and whistled with delight. They rushed out of the house saying they were going to go and invite their commando to see their catch,” she said. Families usually try to hide their
girls behind cupboards or under beds but these are the first places the rebels look. Thorpe’s quickthinking brother hurried his daughter out to a storeroom full of broken furniture at the back of the house. “He laid her on the ground and piled a heap of broken chairs on her and he and his two sons hid in a wardrobe which they camouflaged with a tabletop,” said
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“The invaders returned and turned the house upside down, cursed and swore and promised to bum the house down. They sprayed inflammable liquid on a curtain, put a match to it and left. For some reason, that curtain burnt and went out without the fire spreading to anything else, thank God. “The family came out of hiding at daybreak. By then, the ECOMOG soldiers (West African peacekeeping forces) had come in,” she said. Another 16-year-old girl, whom Thorpe has been counselling, was not so lucky. “The rebels were outside their gate and three brothers were giv-
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ing their sister a hand to scale the wall into the neighboring house. The gate flew open and all of theta were ordered to freeze at gunpoint. “The girl was commanded to undress and three of them took turns to rape her in front of her motherandbrothers. They dragged her to the nearby camp they’d set up. Luckily, ECOMOG chased them out of the area that evening and the girl crawled back to her family.” Although Thorpe knew many girls had been raped during the 1 ‘7day rebel occupation, she foundjit hard, initially, to get them to come forward. “The culture of silence was a big problem. To come and sa^: T’ve been raped’ is a big taboo/ For three weeks we ran radio and TV programs. We went info schools talking to girls, parents and teachers. We made a breakthrough and they started floodirig in,” she recalls. More than 300 rape victims, some as young as eight, have come forward in the last three months. Meanwhile, the fate of those who were abducted by the rebels depends on whether they choose to cooperate with their captors.' “Those who refuse are flogged or shot. Others are repeatedly raped for weeks, bv several rebels at a time, before being abandoned in the bush. Many die before they make it to the first village,” Thorpe
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Cooperative girls are retained as wives and trained to fight, using guns, knives, machetes and clubs. “Under the influence of drugs and alcohol, female rebels are the most vicious,” said Thorpe. “They compete for recognition with the commander. Their babies are drugged to sleep while they go on their daily business to kill, maim, loot and bum houses with impunity.” Even when they fight loyally for the rebels, the girls are treated cruelly. “Most are regularly beaten, battefcd and disgraced openly. A male rebel usually has several wives and a girl-can easily be shot if he gets tired of her,” she said. The “wives” also murder one another in an attempt to protect themselves. “When he gets a newly-captured young girl, the older wives will wait for him to go out. They tactfully take her to a stream and either slaughter her in cold blood or hold her under the wateruntil she suffocates,”Thorpe claimed. Despite the violence meted out by the rebel soldiers, female combatants do enjoy several benefits. “When some of the rebels came into Freetown, they had the best hairstyles,” said Thorpe. They also occupy rich people’s homes, forcing the owners to become their servants, doing their cooking and cleaning. Thorpe admits that it will be tough persuading such girls to return to school. “The ones who don ’ t mind staying with the rebels are ones who see it as an opportunity to be somebody, no matter what that somebody is. We have to try and reach out and give them an alternative way of life. They have to realize this is going to lead them nowhere and see some future. There’s more to life than just wielding a knife,” she said.
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