Stop the Rapes (by Mary Zeiss Stange)

The following text is a translation of an essay by U.S. eco-feminist Mary Zeiss Stange (deceased last year), originally published in English in 2004, in The Women's Review of Books, Vol. 21, No. 5, "Women, War, and Peace" (February 2004), p. 12–13. Cover photo: the fighter "Black Diamond" (in the centre, with glasses) surrounded by her bodyguards and members of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LUI) movement while returning …