Bosnia Rape Victims
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* Glancing at your April 10 paper, my eyes fell upon the tragic story, “Ordeals Put Off Bosnia Rape Victim’s Healing.” My heart ached for Amira, the 35-year-old Muslim woman, mother of two children, suffering the loss of her husband, wandering about the countryside begging to survive. Placed in a detention camp (as the story unfolds), raped repeatedly by Serb soldiers, acting as animal pigs rather than humans, the woman became another tragic victim of human wickedness. Where is mankind headed?
My thoughts turn to God and ask, “Why God? Why did you create such monsters? God, are you for real?” If this is God’s way of teaching or testing my faith, then my beliefs and faith are being shattered with contempt instead.
Having just lost my wife to cancer, maybe my feelings are more prone and fragile, to be torn apart, and my feelings turn more intensely to those who are suffering also.
VICTOR H. JASHINSKI
Newport Beach
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