because it involves the armed forces face the military responsibilities and military personnel privacy, sexual assault by the Pentagon as the most scandalous, should not be. However, scandalous, or linen.
in January 2012, at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, USA, documentary film director Dick The film experience and the trauma of sexual assault victims in the U.S. all-round display. As the director called for, people have asked the army to change its policy against sexual abuse phenomenon, playing an invisible war.
can not ask, not allowed to say In 1991, the U.S. military an unprecedented 37 000 women in the military into the Gulf War, the subsequent repeal of the provisions that prohibit sending female soldiers to the combat troops. The war waged by the U.S. military no longer allow a woman to go away, right and wrong The recent fiscal year 2010, the U.S. female soldiers to 200,000, of sexual assaults rose to 3158 from
Of course, not the U.S. military sexual assault phenomenon simply attribute the high proportion of women. In fact, the U.S. women have entered the war, its facing risks well prepared. To reduce the risk of female soldiers on the battlefield, the U.S. female positions were clearly defined. Just did not expect, the greatest risk to women in the military are not enemies but their own
in the two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on the battlefield female suffered the rape of the U.S. Department of Defense Office of Veterans Affairs, an independent investigation found that during service of the U.S. female soldiers raped the proportion may be as high as 1/3.
to hide the ugly, the U.S. military sexual assaults as a Do not report many incidents victims affectionate, commander of failure to report, documentary film to expose only the tip of the iceberg. Even Defense Secretary Panetta also acknowledged that a conservative estimate of the 2010 fiscal year military neutral violations should be 19 000 cases. The armed forces of a 150 million people, nearly a hundred people have a sexual assault victims, the high proportion of startling.
more The higher commanders have the right to decide whether the investigation or prosecution of offenders, the right to decide whether the transfer of military tribunals to try. If the commander is not as chaotic as some of the victims not only the legitimate rights and interests can not be maintained, but there may be behind bars.
as a country ruled by law, the U.S. military for handling sexual assaults is not no laws. Just two years ago, the U.S. military to revise
Under the new law, if the soldier guilty of rape, sentenced to life imprisonment; exposed through sexual harassment of women, may be implemented one year in prison. However, legislation and enforcement are two different things. In the U.S. military barracks, the sexual abuse of a very unusual phenomenon, but it is tried, According to the U.S. Department of Defense announced on March 1, 2011,wow gold, fiscal year 2010 military sexual assault the annual report of 3158 reported events, 529 transferred to the Tribunal hearing, only 16.7%. The worrisome
this ugly phenomenon has spread to the U.S. Military Academy. U.S. Department of Defense statistics show that the number of military academies and nearly two years of sexual abuse report was positive surge. 2010 ~ 2011 school year, the number of reported rapes in the United States Military Academy is 65 increase of 64 percent over the previous school year. Once this quality students to enter the officer corps, assigned to the troops, the consequences can be imagined.
the harm of sexual assaults, the U.S. high-level know very well. U.S. Department of Defense had said the military sexual assault incident was
April 3, 2011, Greg Jie Luo many immigrants the United States soon joined the U.S. Army. As a recruit, he was a veteran of gang rape. Later, sexual assault absurd warning in him: and in the United States should always keep in mind who is the boss. What happened to him, the boss Greg Jie Luo and more provocative veterans, the consequences themselves to blame.
layers of shielding of the military, many victims clearly reasoned and injustice have no place to stretch, and only took off his military uniform, will it be possible to abandon the silence, to seek social justice.
According to the U.S. Army Times website reported on November 26, 2011, 28 Navy and Coast Guard retired soldiers, to the Alexandria, Virginia federal court proceedings, sued former Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Donald Rumsfeld. 28 retired soldiers during their service have been sexually violated, because the boss obstruct unable to protect their interests after retirement had by the District Court for the army to have a say.
famous female action site (SWAN), creator, former U.S. Navy captain Bhagwati has served as the commander of the Marine Corps. Service period, a female of her hands were male soldiers rape. Repeatedly asked the superiors of rape dealt with severely failed, Bhagwati angrily left the force. After retiring,wow gold, she advocated the establishment of safeguarding the interests of retired female female mobile site, hoping to put pressure on the network platform combined all social forces to the army to eliminate the military sexual assault phenomenon.
as a witness, Bhagwati said: to sexual violence in the event by an independent body responsible for the investigation military. military sexual assaults as a priority to resolve matters. Panetta, U.S. Secretary of Defense, public guarantee: to defend the United States, if necessary, even gave the female security of life. However,wow gold, Bhagwati was not impressed. She said that this is purely a waste of time. In the past 16 years, the U.S. Department of Defense has conducted 18 case studies, and no any effect.
In fact, nearly 20 years, the Pentagon has been trying to remove the military sexual assault phenomenon, for the establishment of specialized agencies – In 2011, the Pentagon will change the post of director of the Office of the Department of Defense civilian officials to improve the authority of the agency, served as the senior military officers from the rank of Major General.
officers and men on sexual abuse prevention, the U.S. military the military services, all units have also developed a number of response measures, and some troops to replace the dormitory door locks, and improve the lighting levels of the camp. Some units to prohibit a single soldier to go out, set up a security mutual aid groups. What is more, some officers in order to avoid violations of women at night on the toilet, the provisions can not drink water after 19:00; bathing is strictly prohibited under the night in order to prevent being watched. However, these local policies, and some people set, once for the officer, take the political interest. Some overkill, similar to the absurd, by the officers and men to resist, unable to implement.
in 2005, the U.S. Department of Defense launched the investigation and to help the victims of a policy package. The victims of the military direction of the Choose the former, the military commitment, to provide victims with psychological counseling and drug treatment, but the investigation for the protection of privacy, not an event, of course, can not hold the responsibility of the sex offenders. Choose the latter, the military will start an investigation procedure, according to the law dealing with sexual abuse, and protect the victims.
the implementation of the policy package, military sexual abuse significantly increased the number of events reported, some of the victims of physical and psychological trauma treatment, but also sparked controversy. The majority of victims choose a Select the victims of the
some insight that the construction legal barriers, the U.S. military should strengthen the military and moral upbringing, emphasis on the construction of barracks culture. Only the law and morality is a two-pronged approach in order to fundamentally solve the problem.
but pragmatic thinking led the U.S. has always been emphasis on the construction of military power, despise the military ethical culture cultivation. Due to the lack of a healthy and harmonious army mainstream culture, vulgar social culture penetrated into every corner of the barracks. Such as the field the troops perform, if there is no new and exciting, very provocative, it is difficult to inspire the officers and men of interest. Such officers and men of culture will lead the self-evident.
experts pointed out that the ethical culture as a starting point to solve the problem, the U.S. military leadership should reflect on at the policy level. History, whenever repeatedly launched wars of aggression troops will leave too numerous to mention the sex scandal is proof of the fascist army of World War II.
draw lessons from history, the documentary The ethical culture of the army building in a day, only to give up the militaristic policy, the military have the energy to win this protracted stealth war, or press the gourd dipper float, will have more .