One small Iraqi demographic yet to be "liberated": women

Evan Derkacz
February 22, 2005News & Politics

mnesty reports that Iraqi women have yet to feel the liberating effects of Bush's democracy by thuggery project. Not only have the numerous instances of rape and assault "restricted women's freedom of movement and their ability to go to school or to work," but Amnesty added (neither confirmed nor denied by the Pentagon) that "coalition" soldiers stand accused of a number of sexual assaults in their own right. (Feministing)

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