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米軍内で上官が女性兵士をレイプ！被害者を救え！ / Lily-y-victoria
イラクに駐留していた女性兵士スーザン・スウィフトさんが、
軍隊内部で上司からレイプされるなどのセクシュアル・
ハラスメントを受け、一時帰国した後、彼女をレイプした上官の下で再び軍務につくことを拒否したために、2006年6月の11日に逮捕されました。
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AWOL Eugene soldier arrested, to be returned to Ft. Lewis
04:55 PM PDT on Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Associated Press
EUGENE, Ore. -- After deserting her Army unit in January to avoid a second tour of duty in Iraq, Eugene solider Suzanne Nicole Swift was to be returned to Fort Lewis, Wash. Tuesday.
Eugene police arrested Swift, a 21-year old specialist with a military police unit, Sunday at her mother's house. According to Eugene police spokesman Sgt. Rich Stronach, Swift was taken to the Lane County Jail, where she was expected to be handed over to military police and returned to the Army base near Tacoma.
Fort Lewis Army spokesman Joe Hitt confirmed that Swift would be returned but declined to elaborate. He said that her company commander will determine the punishment and that no decision had been made.
Swift's mother, Sara Rich, said her daughter was packed and ready to leave. But just days before the redeployment she had her car keys in hand and broke down.
"She turned to me in the kitchen and said, `I can't go back there.' I said, `Good, don't do it,' " Rich said.
Swift could not be reached for comment. But her mother said her daughter told her she had profound doubts about the war, after seeing it firsthand.
Rich said her daughter said she thought the war lacked purpose and that no one had benefited from it. And Swift wrote her mother from Iraq about being repeatedly sexually harassed.
Swift first went to Iraq in February of 2004. She was stationed in Karbala, about 60 miles southwest of Baghdad, a holy site to Shiite Muslims that has seen its share of the violence.
Swift came home to Fort Lewis in February 2005, believing she had the standard 18 months before being redeployed, her mother said.
Then Swift was asked to return seven months early. It was the last thing Swift wanted to do, her mother said.
According to the Pentagon, the number of soldiers absent without leave is less than 1 percent of the total.
In 2005, 2,011 soldiers were reported AWOL, down from 4,483 in 2002, the spokesman said. Larry Hildes, a Bellingham, Wash., attorney representing Swift is part of a National Lawyers Guild task force on military law, said those figures don't add up. He said there are hundreds of lawyers around the nation representing deserting soldiers.
He said he has handled a dozen such cases since the Iraq war began. A national hotline dealing with rights of servicepeople gets a minimum of 2,000 calls a month, Hildes said, mostly from soldiers who don't want to return to war.
"An increasing number have been to Iraq and are refusing to go back. I've got interrogators and military police officers who will not go back," Hildes said.
Punishment for desertion can range from a reprimand to a court martial and five-year prison sentence.
Rich, a Eugene social worker who opposes the war, said she would rather see her daughter imprisoned for desertion than returned to Iraq.
Hildes said the last he heard base officials were considering a nonjudicial punishment, possibly an administrative discharge.
http://www.kgw.com/iraq/stories/kgw_061306_iraq_soldier_detained_.8170983a.html
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以下のメールは「抵抗する勇気」という団体から送られてきたメールです。
イラク派兵を拒否して起訴されたエレン・ワタダ中尉支援など、イラク戦争・占領に反対する兵士を支援する団体です。
http://www.couragetoresist.org/x
また、エレン・ワタダ中尉については、以下のサイトで日本語で情報を得ることができます。
http://blogst.jp/momo-journal/category_4/
その後も署名は続いています。
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/441448013?ltl=1152532709
米軍内の非人道的な環境は変わっていません。
これがペンタゴンの下にあるアメリカ軍、そしてイラク戦争の実態の一面なのです。
どうか被害者、スーザンさんのためにも署名をお願いいたします。
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http://www.couragetoresist.org
July 15 National Day of Action to Demand an Immediate Honorable
Discharge for Suzanne Swift
http://www.suzanneswift.org Spc. Suzanne Swift
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拙い対訳まがいの要約ですみません。私の力不足のため一部訳せない箇所がありました。
少しは役に立てばいいのですが・・・。
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Letter from Suzanne Swift's Mom
スーザン・スウィフトの母からの手紙
Suzanne joined the Army with stars in her eyes.
She was told she wouldsee far away travel,
be trained as a military police officer
and when she got out
she would be given money for college.
Hell of a deal.
Not once did the recruiter mention
the deadly statistics for women in the military
and how going to war dehumanizes many soldiers to a point
where they think that
raping and harassing women is acceptable behavior.
スーザンは瞳を輝かせて入隊しました。
彼女は遠方へ行き、
憲兵としての訓練を受けることになるだろう、
そして軍を出たら大学へ行くためのお金も与えられるだろうと言われました。
その新兵採用者は一言も言いませんでした。
軍の中の女性の死亡統計や、
戦争に行くことで
どんな風に多くの兵士が
女性をレイプしたり危害を加えたりすることが許容される行動だと思うようになるほどまでに
非人間化させられるかということについて。
What has happened to Suzanne is happening to 2 out of every three womenin the military right now.
Young women and men are being subjected to sexual harassment, intimidation and assault every day
and this is a national call to action.
We must stop the climate of fear that our soldiers are living in every day.
No more sweeping it under the carpet.
Help us change the system where this is acceptable and victims are dismissed and their needs ignored.
Take action and pay attention.
My daughter is stepping up with her very life.
What are you going to do to effect change today?
スーザンの身に起こったことは現在軍内部の女性の三分の二に起こっていることです。
若い女性や男性は毎日セクシュアル・ハラスメントや脅迫や暴行の的にされています。
これは全国規模での行動要請です。
兵士達が日々生きているこの恐ろしい風潮をやめさせなくてはなりません。
都合の悪いことは秘密にするなんてもうごめんです。
こんなことが許容されていて被害者が解雇され被害者のニーズ
が無視されるシステムを変えるための助けをください。
行動を起こし注意を払ってください。
Support Suzanne and thousands of others in taking action.
We demand that
Suzanne be given a full honorable discharge from the Army
and that all her mental heath needs be fully met.
On this July 15, Suzanne will be 22 years old.
Don't allow her to spend another minute under the care of a system that fails so many of it's own every day.
Suzanne deserves an honorable discharge today!
行動を起こすことでスーザンと何千人もの人たちを支えてください。
スーザンに完全に名誉ある除隊を、そして彼女のメンタルヘルスのニーズの全てが十分に満たされることを私達は要求します。
この7月15日にスーザンは22歳になります。
スーザンは名誉ある除隊を受けるに値するのです！
For more information go to www.SuzanneSwift.org
Thank you for your time and energy.
Peace~
Sara Rich, M.S.W
Listen to an audio interview
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/suzanne.mp3
with Sara Rich calling for the day of action on July 15.
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How to Help Suzanne Today
今日、スーザンを助ける方法
2) Sign the support petition
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/441448013?ltl=1152532709
to demand the immediate release of Suzanne Swift from Fort Lewis, WA where
she is being detained for refusing to return to her unit
where she was sexually harassed, abused and demeaned.
2）支援するための要望の署名をお願いします。
スーザン・スウィフトを直ちにワシントンのフォート・ルイスから釈放するように、と。
彼女はそこで拘留されています。彼女は自分が性的危害を加えられ、虐待され、卑しめられた部隊に戻ることを拒否したからです。
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地元の新聞に寄せられた投書を読むと、
スザンヌさんが、ハラスメントを拒絶して、
その見せしめに食糧抜きの任務を課せられたとか、
彼女が一年以上我慢した挙句に被害を報告すると今度は裏切者扱いされたとか、
女性兵士はレイプされるのを恐れてシャワーも浴びないことがあるとか、凄まじいことばかりです。
YOU TUBEにも女性達の発言があります。どうぞご覧ください↓
Press Conf. - Sexual Assault on Military Members - 1/5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQSZZStxpk0
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