GADDAFIS HAREM: THE STORY OF A YOUNG WOMAN AND THE ABUSES OF POWER IN PDF, EPUB, EBOOK

Annick Cojean, Marjolijn de Jager | 294 pages | 03 Sep 2013 | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press | 9780802121721 | English | New York, United States Gaddafi's Harem | Grove Atlantic

Benghazi-based psychologist Seham Sergewa interviewed victims for the International Criminal Court, and said that as many as women served in the unit over the years. She kept begging her distraught father to look away. Many of the victims say they contemplated suicide many times. Doubtless there were some who took their own lives. Young boys and so on. He had his own boys. They used to be called the 'services group'. All of them were boys and bodyguards. In making the film, the documentary makers also uncovered evidence that Gaddafi used a private hit squad based in Cuba to eliminate opponents, and kept the bodies of victims in freezers. Baha Kikhia was the wife of a foreign minister who had a fractious relationship with the dictator and went missing. When Gaddafi's regime fell, she found out that her husband's body was among those stored. It was as though they were some sort of macabre souvenirs. Something that he could look at and touch to remind himself of his omnipotence. Some had been there as long as 25 years. Allegations that Gaddafi kidnapped scores of women and subjected them to systematic abuse emerged last year, when French journalist Annick Cojean published Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya, recounting the story of a girl kidnapped and raped by Gaddafi as a schoolgirl. flanked by two of his female bodyguards on a visit to Rome in It is the weakest—the poor, the women, the children—who suffer the most. The details are shockingly graphic and the stories horrifying, made even more so by the victim-shaming that has silenced the women in the aftermath. She also elucidates the astounding challenges still faced by women who have been abused and enslaved under his regime, shedding light on an aspect of the dictatorship often hidden or dismissed, even within Libya. Gripping, deeply disturbing, and compulsively readable. A moving and disturbing wake-up call to the personal costs of totalitarianism. And soon she would disappear completely. This was the fate of so many women who were held at the mercy of Colonel Gaddafi. In this shocking book, Annick Cojean gives these women a voice. An exceptional piece of reporting. A study taken with great audacity by a senior reporter for Le Monde , and at some personal risk, since these crimes are completely taboo in Libya, even today. The school auditorium was packed. Teachers, students, administrators—everyone was nervously waiting. My legs felt like rubber. And suddenly, there He was. Cameras flashed as he came out, surrounded by a horde of people and female bodyguards. He was wearing a white uniform, his chest covered with insignia, flags, and decorations, a beige shawl over his shoulders that matched the color of the small cap on his head from which some dark black hair peaked out. Gaddafi's harem: Shocking book reveals dictator's sexual abuse of schoolgirls | Daily Mail Online

This one meeting - a presentation of flowers, a pat on the head from Gaddafi - changed Soraya's life forever. Soon afterwards, she was summoned to Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafi's palatial compound near Tripoli, where she joined a number of young women who were violently abused, raped and degraded by Gaddafi. Heartwrenchingly tragic but ultimately redemptive, Soraya's story is the first of many that are just now beginning to be heard. Gaddafi's Harem is an astonishing portrait of the essence of dictatorship: how power gone unchecked can wreak havoc on the most intensely personal level, as well as a document of great significance to the new Libya. Skip to main content. Cojean, Annick. Recommended Price. August About the book:. Le Monde Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of , when she was given the honour of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, the Guide, on a visit he was making the following week. I'm going to be all that for you. Because you are going to stay and live with me forever. Soraya said she was repeatedly raped by Gaddafi after he chose her at a visit to her school in Sirte pictured. The book has been translated into English after selling , copies since it was published in French. The schoolgirl was given porn to view and was made to watch Gaddafi have sex with other so she could 'learn'. Boys and his male guards were also raped by the tyrant, according to the book. Soraya was eventually allowed home in but she says she is a shame to her family because she had sex outside marriage. She said she only felt free from Gaddafi after his death in at the end of the civil war. The book features interviews with a woman who ferried the girls to Gaddafi's compound and other victims. Ms Cojean also alleges Gaddafi, who was married to Safia Farkash, pursued students and the wives of foreign dignitaries. Ms Cojean was quoted in the New York Daily News as writing: 'It was not so much about seducing a woman as, through her, humiliating the man who is supposed to be responsible for her. Female visitors were routinely subjected to blood tests by Gaddafi's nurses to make sure they were disease free in case he wanted to have sex with them. Marie Colvin, the Sunday Times journalist killed in Syria in , reported that a nurse had approached her with a needle when she was in Tripoli to interview Gaddafi. She declined to give blood. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Argos AO. Inside Gaddafi's harem: Shocking book reveals depraved dictator's sexual abuse of schoolgirls he kept locked in basement below fortress Gaddafi chose schoolgirls and kept them as sex slaves, book claims French journalist Annick Cojean's investigation includes story of 'Soraya' who says she was locked up for five years and repeatedly raped Says male guards and boys were also raped by Muammar Gaddafi Book already a bestseller in French and now translated into English By Becky Evans Published: GMT, 25 August Updated: GMT, 25 August e-mail View comments. Share this article Share. The book features the Soraya's story, who says she was kept for five years in a basement at Gaddafi's huge Tripoli compound Bab al-Azizia pictured being demolished after his death in Annick Cojean claims Gaddafi's female bodyguards were made up of mistresses with no weapons training. Share or comment on this article: Gaddafi's harem: Shocking book reveals dictator's sexual abuse of schoolgirls e-mail. 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Annick has thrown light on how women were abducted, imprisoned, raped and abused by the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi during his brutal regime. The first half of the sensational book contains the real sexual encounters of a woman, named Soraya, when she was just year-old. It tells about how Gaddafi made her and others his "sex-slaves" and confined them. Now, year-old Soraya's story has disclosed that how Gaddafi's men stripped her and forced her to wear a G-string lingerie, with full make-up. She said that Gaddafi was lying naked on his bed and after a failed rape attempt, he called her a 'whore' and assaulted her so badly that she had to undergo a medical treatment. For five years, she was confined to a small room in the basement of Tripoli base. There, she was given 'porn clips featuring Gaddafi having sex with other women' so that she could 'learn' from and was forcefully made to consume alcohol and drugs. She has revealed that she was raped and beaten by Gaddafi many times but was finally let go home in In the book, it is mentioned that Gaddafi used to call girls to his bedchamber day and night, where he allegedly drugged, beat, raped and sodomized them. The book also reveals another story of a woman who was also raped, made pregnant and had the baby delivered in secret. In , Annick broke this story on Gaddafi and went to Tripoli to cover interviews of Gaddafi's victims. Then, she penned down a tell-all book on Gaddafi's sexual encounters with women. Annick says, "He used sex to humiliate, punish and reward. Rape was a weapon of war and sex was a weapon of power for him". The author further reveals that Gaddafi had his everyday prey and tried to woo performers, TV presenters, and wives of foreign dignitaries with gifts. Cojean's book is now freely available in Libya, and in February, a group of demonstrators held copies of the book as they demanded a law to protect women who have been raped, the report added. In an another revelation, it came to light that Gaddafi's all-female bodyguards group had an Indian connection. After Gaddafi's death, it became an open secret that Gaddafi used to rape and enslave his female bodyguards. Pamella served as Gaddafi's consort when he visited London. At that time, she was one of the most high-profile prostitutes in London and used to charge 10, pounds per night. For Quick Alerts. Subscribe Now. For Daily Alerts. Muammar Gaddafi. We were to witness the murder of 17 students. We were not allowed to scream. We were made to cheer and shout. To act as though delighted by this display. Inside I was crying. They shot them all, one by one. Benghazi-based psychologist Seham Sergewa interviewed victims for the International Criminal Court, and said that as many as women served in the unit over the years. She kept begging her distraught father to look away. Many of the victims say they contemplated suicide many times. Doubtless there were some who took their own lives. Young boys and so on. He had his own boys. They used to be called the 'services group'. All of them were boys and bodyguards. In making the film, the documentary makers also uncovered evidence that Gaddafi used a private hit squad based in Cuba to eliminate opponents, and kept the bodies of victims in freezers. Baha Kikhia was the wife of a foreign minister who had a fractious relationship with the dictator and went missing.

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During the past decade, something insidious has happened to global feminism. White Western women are being punished, insulted and demonised for speaking out against the atrocities heaped on our sisters from Muslim cultures. I am a deeply committed radical feminist who, for more than three decades has fought against sexual and gender-based violence, but am I within my rights to speak of a universal war against women? Not according to the appeasers of Islam. I am, it would appear, allowed to speak about the abuse of women by men, so long as they are within my demographic. But if I stray from my own turf and begin to speak of such abuse within Muslim communities, I am sticking my nose in where it is not wanted. Worse, I am imposing my white, Western imperialism on what is described by my critics as a much misunderstood, maligned community. The oppression of women, for those defenders of Islam, is not a major concern if it is done in the name of religious and cultural freedom. But whose freedom? Not the women who escape Islamic regimes and come to the UK hoping to live under equality, or those feminists born into a Muslim faith who campaign passionately for the right not to wear the full-face veil, enter into an arranged or forced marriage or have their daughters undergo genital mutilation FGM. These women and their freedoms matter less to the cultural relativists than the freedom of Islamist men to practise such discrimination under the guise of freedom of religious expression. This magazine has led the way in exposing both the atrocities faced by women living under Muslim laws in the UK and the hypocrisy of those on the Left who defend such practices. Over the last decade, those feminists who seek to condemn violence and abuse towards women in the name of culture or religion have often been accused of condemning an entire community or faith. Muslim women who publicly support harmful cultural practices by arguing that polygamy, FGM and the wearing of the full-face veil are merely expressions of a Muslim identity are held up as evidence that such practices are nothing to do with male dominance and patriarchal power. After decades of being fed the guff — from politicians, prosecutors and, ironically, some campaigners fighting to eradicate FGM — that it is a cultural rather than criminal practice, the message has finally started to sink in that it is nothing more or less than child abuse. Even the Guardian , an outlet that has continually defended radical Islam, is supporting a campaign to eradicate it. Female genital mutilation — which involves the total or partial removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons — is recognised as a violation of human rights. Almost always carried out on girls below the age of 16, FGM has numerous short- and long-term consequences and complications, including severe pain, shock, haemorrhage, bacterial infection and infertility. Women who suffer FGM often forfeit the possibility of any sexual pleasure and may face serious complications — even death — in childbirth. They are mainly from communities with links to sub-Saharan or north-east Africa, Asia and the Middle East. There were four of us, but because I was the bravest, I was told to go first. My blood was shooting into her face and eyes. Since then, hundreds of thousands of British girls — ranging from babies to young women — have had large parts of their vaginas sliced away with knives, scalpels or razor blades, sometimes with anaesthetic, often without. Despite this, there has not been one successful prosecution under the Female Genital Mutilation Act. Furthermore, my recent report for the New Culture Forum, which investigated this inaction, found evidence that women and girls were being brought to the UK to be mutilated. I wanted to find out why we had failed to punish those who carry out FGM, by interviewing professionals in health, social care, and the justice system. I do not oppose male circumcision because it is not mutilation, and very few health problems arise from the procedure. Also, it is healthier for men and their sexual partners. Underlying many professional responses was a confusion about the criminality of FGM, and a tendency to see it as a traditional practice, rather than a form of child abuse. This reluctance would seem completely unjustified if applied to other forms of child abuse. This misguided and ultimately dangerous cultural sensitivity is not limited to health and social care professionals. In one of the most unashamed examples of cultural relativism I have ever read, Penny argues:. Structural sexism does take place every day in our universities, as it does in our offices, shops and homes — and we should oppose it everywhere. So FGM, forced marriage, gender segregation, and imprisonment within the confines of the home do not exist? A correction was appended to the piece after complaints that Penny had ignored the fact that several women of Muslim origin had been centrally involved in the anti-segregation campaign. What an effective and insidious way to remove all agency from Muslim-born feminists fighting for liberation. This issue has only exploded because these women began coming forward in increasing numbers and drowned out the cultural relativists. They made it clear they would rather we stopped the mutilation. Many of the women fled to the UK to avoid the misery of living under sharia. The shameful truth is that many so-called feminists and others on the Left stepped in and created a shadow sharia on their behalf. Two recently published books illustrate a polarity in the way misogyny and violence against women in Islam has been framed. In April , Gaddafi was visiting a school in his home town of Sirte, on the Mediterranean coast miles east of Tripoli. A year-old girl was selected to present gifts and flowers to Gaddafi but what followed was almost beyond belief. Then, she penned down a tell-all book on Gaddafi's sexual encounters with women. Annick says, "He used sex to humiliate, punish and reward. Rape was a weapon of war and sex was a weapon of power for him". The author further reveals that Gaddafi had his everyday prey and tried to woo performers, TV presenters, and wives of foreign dignitaries with gifts. Cojean's book is now freely available in Libya, and in February, a group of demonstrators held copies of the book as they demanded a law to protect women who have been raped, the report added. In an another revelation, it came to light that Gaddafi's all-female bodyguards group had an Indian connection. After Gaddafi's death, it became an open secret that Gaddafi used to rape and enslave his female bodyguards. Pamella served as Gaddafi's consort when he visited London. At that time, she was one of the most high-profile prostitutes in London and used to charge 10, pounds per night. For Quick Alerts. Subscribe Now. For Daily Alerts. Muammar Gaddafi. Must Watch. By Preeti Panwar. Libyan secular parliament urges postponement of peace talks. UNSC extends Libya mission's mandate. Libyan government wants militias to leave Tripoli. New Libyan PM vote declared invalid. Libya court reopens trial of Gaddafi regime figures. Gaddafi's son Saif-al Islam demands trial in Zintan, not Tripoli. Libyans Vote in 1st Election after Gaddafi. Muammar Gaddafi's ailing son in good health. 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