Editorial
Common Goals, Stark Diferences: Peace and Justice in Women's Context
As we enter 2000, peace must be ranking high in the wish-list of millions of people who find the least relevance in the much-ballyhooed millennium bug. In a world continuously ravaged by territorial disputes, conflicts over resources, battles for ethnic self-determination and religious primacy, and growing nuclearisation and militarism, peace remains elusive. A prayer for peace is repeated in many homes where women cannot soundly sleep, not only for fear of being hit by bullet shrapnel and bombs, but by blows and other abuses from intimate partners and male family members who add to the violence that many women experience day in and day out.
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Reinforcing Subordination
An Analysis of Women in Armed Conflict Situations
Lingthanghuanga is 45 years old today, but tears ushered by pain and shame fill her eyes as she recalls the traumatic events of that fateful day when she was a slip of a girl of 13. She was detained in a room and continuously raped by five armed personnel till she managed to escape through the window and run to the forest crying for help. As the middle-aged woman shared her pain, she also told us that she had never shared this with anyone, not even her husband. Her family members, the community and the church have all preferred not to talk about it or help her to talk about it. She has thus lived life quietly remembering the incident as a shameful act, which had to be hidden deep down within her.
Women and Peace in Sri Lanka
Some Observations
The ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka is one of the world’s forgotten wars. It has dragged on for over 15 years, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of people and the destruction of precious natural resources. It has also created tens of thousands of refugees and internally displaced people. The conflict has seen the long-term engagement of the security forces of the Sri Lankan government with members of armed Tamil militant groups, as well as brutal massacres, ethnic riots and large-scale attacks on civilian populations living away from conflict zones with bombings happening in public places and in public transport, for example.
Indonesian Women Reclaim Their Place Under the Sun
When the the Indonesian Democratic Party Struggle (PDI-P) came out of the general elections with the majority of votes, and the popularity of its leader Megawati Sukarnoputri increased day by day, it pushed the issue of “gender” right into the centre of the nation’s attention.
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