The Washington Post has a story about Iraq's Overlooked Women (washingtonpost.com).
The following is an excerpt:
An Iraqi doctor opened her door to Baath secret agents, only to find herself under arrest and on her way to jail for 10 years -- terrified she'd never see her children again. Her crime was to bandage the wounds of a dying man lying in a Baghdad street. She later heard that he had been left to die after an interrogation. In helping him and following the Hippocratic oath of her profession, she had stepped on the other side of the line. Her account is one among the hundreds of thousands of untold stories of Iraqi women.Over the past 35 years, Iraqis suffered murder, rape, torture and disappearances under the Baathist regime. Women have lost husbands, sons and brothers to war -- and been left to bear family and community responsibilities alone, in a country isolated from the world.
I wonder how many Iraqi women are glad the Baathist regime is effectively out of power.
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