Courtesy of a friend in the UK.
Check out this:
David Hackworth describes how Army command dismisses concerns of female rape victims. What's chilling is that involves all the players from the Abu Graib story. Only here Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski is leading the charge for female soldiers against Sanchez.
I used to practice employment law. This type of behavior, with varying degress of seriousness, occurred in almost every industry where women broke into the ranks. Prior to women, racial minorities or other different groups faced similar treatment.
It only stopped after industries got sued by the private attorneys and/or government agencies. But here we have the military, which is almost immune from outside pressue due to its own legal system.
Some of the more horrible facts:
- Even after 83 rapes had been reported, Army used message machine to staff rape hotline.
- General Ricardo Sanchez' attitude was the women asked to be here so they take the consequences.
- Pentagon investigated, issued useless report, but confirmed that more than 2100 sexual assaults took place in 2 years throughout US Military.
- Two female soldiers captured a male soldier who attempted to rape one of them while wearing a scarf over his face and carrying a knife. Although CID arrested him that night, they released him the next day because the women could not "identify" him (due to the scarf).