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How easily women become the first casualty of every conflict, large or small. Rape and gendered segregation are common weapons of war and ethnic cleansing.
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― The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
― The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
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Most of these women were not educated; many had never stepped out of their homes. They responded to the continuum of patriarchy as they had been conditioned to do so - providing thumb impressions to false statements, and in the case of rape survivors, staying silent because they were commanded to to so.
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― The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
― The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
