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  • Tuesday, October 25, 2005 08:09 PM

    Reply to Ransom

    Ghettoizing articles like this as "women's news" rather than "human rights abuses" is exactly what people are grousing about. This is something everyone ought to see, not just people who happen to share the same biological plumbing with the people being abused. Why are abuses that happen to women relegated to women's issues, when abuses that happen to men are news?

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