RAPE AS WEAPON OF WAR
Jul 9, 2022
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Apparently in 2020 during the pandemic in most of our countries..we had the lockdown session...in our country this always statex from 7 and then the government regulated it to 9pm...despite that we all had our difficult times but i guess on my side it got more difficult than i thought it would be....on March,my mother had to undergo a spine surgery but she was able to make it out well..(you can sip some coffee maybe its about to get tough)am an only child of my mother but we have one adapted boy from the Eastern side of our country..(my dad has rented out some hoises just around our compound) so it 5.30 in the evening am in the proces of lighting up the jiko (its a container made of metal amd clay used for burning charcoal.)for me to prepare dinner..in the process..one of the tenants comes in escorted by a man and a woman to the house...due to my curiosity i enauired to whatever was happening because she seemed to be in so much pain....i got to understand she was in pain and she wasnt feeling well and hence asked dad to take her to hospital.By then in our country the curfew was 9.30pm...my mum definitely wouldnt come out of the house....and at around 8.30 my dad called me...we were to pass some documents to them so that the patient would be taken to a higher level hospital...so i went to the neighbours house took all the documents and accompanied by my brother and the patients children we went at the bus stage where my dad was...We definitely never knew that that was the day we were to face our troubles....so we were the second born of(lets give them a name mama Nana would do-the patients name)so apparently we were with Mama nanas second born,last born and my brother...we did what we were supposed to do...some steps to our gate someone started lighting on us...since i was the oldest i consulted what he wanted...he was definitely on police uniform i mean from head to toe and he was in a mask that fully covered his face...i had to humble down and listen to his orders...to my surprise the 'police officer'started to put threats on us the way he's going to shoot us maybe and our families left to cry for justice and the biggest thing that will happen to him is being transferred to a hardship point and nothing more would happen..so we had to calm down,relax and oblige to his orders....so during those times it was an order that if anyone is caught outside during curfew hours should be taken to quarantine for 2 weeks....i tried explaining and it was all in vain...the next thing he ordered us to do...was hold hands and follow him...i know you are asking yourself why wouldnt we scream for the neighbours to come but convinced it was a police officer and was definitely convinced we are safe....we went down to a valley and i started questioning him where the quarantine centre was and you know what happened next....he pulled out a machete i mean a machete...some humour maybe...IT WAS AT THAT MOMENT I REALIZED HE IS NOT A POLICE OFFICER..i mean so we had now to do everything he wanted and ger more submissive than before...let me not tell you that down the bush across a river we had to pull out our clothes and the worst happened...all procedures were followed...you waiting for me to tell you what followed..one year later to our relieve the guy was arrested....but relax..one month after...the guy is released i mean we really have such a bad judicial system....but to my idea to curb all this we can do it all by increasing conviction and ending impunity of the perpator.despite that ensuring our judicial system is free of corruption....
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