http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/06/libya.rape.case/index.html?hpt=T2
if you've been following the news of libya, you know her name.
she is the post-graduate law student who was kidnapped @ a libyan checkpoint, held for days, and brutally raped repeatedly by moammer gadhafi's brigades.
can you imagine what that was like, to be sodomized with rifles and have a legion of strange men take their turn beating and raping you for days on end?
nope, me neither. :-(
how does one possibly recover from such heinous inhumanity?
and yet, Eman had the raw courage to go to the hotel where foreign reporters were staying and tell her story; risking her very life to do so.
wow, now THAT'S a hero!
an ordinary human accomplishing an extraordinary feat.
i think about the young relative of khaled said in egypt, that started the ENTIRE revolution(and eventual overthrow of a long-time dictator) just by ONE powerful statement on facebook:
"WE ARE ALL KHALED SAID"
indeed.
aren't we also all Eman al-Obeidy?
doesn't the diminishment of any other diminish us all?
when all is said and done, there is no "us and them", only us.
let's try and live to make that the only reality.
i had only heard a little about the libyan woman being raped. she is one fearless chick. it's really good for everyone to see how little power the gov't wants people to have. it's pretty cool that you're keeping people informed about what's going on in the world and feeding readers edifying messages. a guru in so many ways :)
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