Comments on: Back in Toronto, via Kigali http://www.pkhope.com/back-in-toronto-via-kigali/ A Candid Blog Mon, 21 May 2012 23:23:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Aftab S. Alam http://www.pkhope.com/back-in-toronto-via-kigali/comment-page-1/#comment-570644 Aftab S. Alam Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:58:46 +0000 http://www.pakspectator.com/?p=13117#comment-570644 Three desperate women land in shelter home By Mohammad Hussain Khan @#2: aansa, is it really as schocking as you pretend it to be. Come on, tell me you live in 'dreamland'. Let's see ho much schock you can take, following are just a few reports from the 'wonderful' things we allow to hapen right in our middle. Forget the world, try to right the wrongs we live with everyday - right here. Monday, 27 Jul, 2009 Couple killed over honour in Humayoon Dawn Correspondent Thursday, 30 Jul, 2009 Call to plug legal loopholes in cases of honour killing Wednesday, 01 Jul, 2009 Protest against police for not arresting ‘rapists’ By Our Correspondent Wednesday, 24 Jun, 2009 Hyderabad police rescues couple during jirga By Our Correspondent Tuesday, 16 Jun, 2009 Couple married for love, hiding in fear of tribal justice Thursday, 11 Jun, 2009 Underage girls being sold into marriage in Umerkot By A.B. Arisar Wednesday, 10 Jun, 2009 Jirga opposes peace deal at cost of women rights By Sadia Qasim Shah Monday, 09 Mar, 2009 Three desperate women land in shelter home By Mohammad Hussain Khan
@#2: aansa, is it really as schocking as you pretend it to be. Come on, tell me you live in ‘dreamland’. Let’s see ho much schock you can take, following are just a few reports from the ‘wonderful’ things we allow to hapen right in our middle. Forget the world, try to right the wrongs we live with everyday - right here.

Monday, 27 Jul, 2009

Couple killed over honour in Humayoon Dawn Correspondent
Thursday, 30 Jul, 2009

Call to plug legal loopholes in cases of honour killing
Wednesday, 01 Jul, 2009

Protest against police for not arresting ‘rapists’ By Our Correspondent
Wednesday, 24 Jun, 2009

Hyderabad police rescues couple during jirga By Our Correspondent
Tuesday, 16 Jun, 2009

Couple married for love, hiding in fear of tribal justice
Thursday, 11 Jun, 2009

Underage girls being sold into marriage in Umerkot By A.B. Arisar
Wednesday, 10 Jun, 2009

Jirga opposes peace deal at cost of women rights By Sadia Qasim Shah
Monday, 09 Mar, 2009

]]> By: aansa http://www.pkhope.com/back-in-toronto-via-kigali/comment-page-1/#comment-570595 aansa Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:29:41 +0000 http://www.pakspectator.com/?p=13117#comment-570595 It is very shocking to see people using women to take revenge or punish other tribes or group of people. Unfortunately, it is happening in most parts of the world. It is very shocking to see people using women to take revenge or punish other tribes or group of people. Unfortunately, it is happening in most parts of the world.

]]> By: fatou http://www.pkhope.com/back-in-toronto-via-kigali/comment-page-1/#comment-569776 fatou Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:18:23 +0000 http://www.pakspectator.com/?p=13117#comment-569776 let me begin by noting that you've made some good points about rape as a weapon of war/conflict/Genocide. as someone who has studied and written extensively about this issue, and has conducted research in both the DRC and Rwanda, i appreciate any light that is shed on this issue that has remained in the dark for so long. in an attempt to make a connection between the gross violations of human rights occuring in Eastern Congo and the so-called 'plundering' of DRC's natural resources, however, you have lost all merit by delving into suppositions and what appears to be meandering reasoning. there is so much in your train of logic re. Rwanda that is flawed and based on no facts, whatsoever. for example: not all Francophone Tutsi living in Rwanda before 1994 were killed. fact. how you can completely ignore those who survived (including those women you wrote of who were raped, repeatedly, and left to live with HIV/AIDS) is shocking. furthermore, those who returned after 1994 returned from exile all over the world, including francophone countries. fact. those who grew up in Rwanda post-94 were mandatorily required to study in all three national languages, from primary school through to university. as a result, this generation speaks all three languages fluently. FACT. perhaps if you focused more on WHY DRC's use of aid might be deemed ineffective..perhaps if you refuted this claim with facts and evidence, rather than with an obscure reference to minerals and plundering via unspecified UN Reports (all which have been disputed, on record, incidentally), your arguement would be more effective. rather, this piece comes off full of disdain and spite for a country that is doing comparatively well (vis a vis its neighbors), but it is unclear from where this disdain originates. let me begin by noting that you’ve made some good points about rape as a weapon of war/conflict/Genocide. as someone who has studied and written extensively about this issue, and has conducted research in both the DRC and Rwanda, i appreciate any light that is shed on this issue that has remained in the dark for so long.

in an attempt to make a connection between the gross violations of human rights occuring in Eastern Congo and the so-called ‘plundering’ of DRC’s natural resources, however, you have lost all merit by delving into suppositions and what appears to be meandering reasoning. there is so much in your train of logic re. Rwanda that is flawed and based on no facts, whatsoever. for example: not all Francophone Tutsi living in Rwanda before 1994 were killed. fact. how you can completely ignore those who survived (including those women you wrote of who were raped, repeatedly, and left to live with HIV/AIDS) is shocking. furthermore, those who returned after 1994 returned from exile all over the world, including francophone countries. fact. those who grew up in Rwanda post-94 were mandatorily required to study in all three national languages, from primary school through to university. as a result, this generation speaks all three languages fluently. FACT.

perhaps if you focused more on WHY DRC’s use of aid might be deemed ineffective..perhaps if you refuted this claim with facts and evidence, rather than with an obscure reference to minerals and plundering via unspecified UN Reports (all which have been disputed, on record, incidentally), your arguement would be more effective. rather, this piece comes off full of disdain and spite for a country that is doing comparatively well (vis a vis its neighbors), but it is unclear from where this disdain originates.

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