137 Harare rapes in January - Zimbabwe

[dArKeR]

Harare - At least 137 young girls were raped in Harare in January, according to figures released by a rights activist on Wednesday.

She described the figure as "staggering" for a capital of 1.5 million people.

A separate study revealed that 18% of Zimbabwean women had been raped in their lifetime, according to Janah Ncube, head of the Woman's Coalition of Zimbabwe.

Ncube told scores of protesters who took to the streets on Wednesday to protest against rape that the figure for the number of children raped in Harare in January came from a clinic where most cases like this were treated.

More than 90% of reported rape victims were infected by HIV, according to the coalition. Zimbabwe is one of the countries worst affected by the Aids scourge, with at least 3 000 Aids-related deaths a week.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-259_1482249,00.html

[Young Socialist]

1. need to spend more of shrub's $15billion on education there

unfortuneately raping a virgin is believed to be a cure for many STDs and AIDS in some parts of Africa.