Surviving Sexual Violence in the Darién Gap: Lis’s Story
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- In 2021, the number of people risking their lives to cross the Darién Gap, a treacherous, roadless, 60-mile stretch of jungle connecting Colombia with Panama, has spiked. Not only is the crossing physically grueling and risky, but people also experience being attacked, robbed, and sexually assaulted on the route. Lis, a Venezuelan migrant who recently travelled through the Darién Gap, shares her story of surviving sexual violence. “They attacked us three times,” she said. “The first two times nothing happened, but the third time something did happen. This was when they abused… everything.”
Between May and August, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treated 105 women who had been sexually assaulted. MSF is reiterating its demand that the governments of Colombia and Panama establish safe alternative routes between the two countries and deploy the necessary protection mechanisms in their territories to prevent more needless death and suffering. Read more at bit.ly/3lw5Top
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What people are willing to suffer for freedom, and here in the United States we abuse and take advantage of it. God help these people please.
Your words are the absolute truth.
Yeah like you have Freedom in the US, pull the other leg!
Man we take so much for granted these people literally live in third world countries they’d prolly k!ll you for a bottle of water if you had it 💯💯 man I feel for these woman my heart goes out to them and their families what type of sick people are out there ?? How could you violate and force yourself on a woman that knows knowing she doesn’t consent like how can you even get off these people are evil
Idk, I live in a "3rd world" (Mexico), and people get by... the only thing I would flee is cartel violin ce, but if they are that desperate, why not go south? To Chile, Peru, Argentina? Our countries grow food easily, even if we are poor, there are fruit trees, beans, etc... and we have water, we get by. I can't think of anything that would make me go through a rout where I know I will be a6 used 100%
Ladies your life is more important do not risk it. There is no guarantee you make it to the United States and get asylum
Many leave places where the lives and health are at risk every day.
@Belltown Daisy horrible situations either way! Do you stay where there's high crime and women are threatened and die everyday, live in horrible conditions and barely get by or do you risk the trip?
Soon there won't be anywhere to run anymore
@@ceilconstante640 They bring crime and misogyny with them.
Maybe try talking to your politicians to stop destroying their economies so they don‘t have to migrate
what a gruesome act to migrants, who only want to be safe 😥🙏
They only want to be safe? Really? Laken Riley. Mollie Tibbetts. The victims of Camilo Hutardo Compos.
They just bring their ways with them. Not welcome.
How about paying the U.S immigration and still waiting to be reunited with your husband almost 5 years later. This is promoting lawlessness!
The US cannot take in everyone who wants to come. The problem is not with the US. The problem is with the sending companies.
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Ladies i know you are desperate for opportunities but risking your life & your children in a dangerous journey that can even kill you, Its not okay. I feel sad for this people & I pray for them.
Why are you acting like they have a choice you're letting your privilege show let me guess you live in a developed country like America
@@anthonymort5202 they have a choice some of them their countries are not that bad that they can’t make a living. So they should go & get raped & killed for wanting a better life, even where they are going it won’t be easy for them.
@@anthonymort5202 THey have a choice to stay in their countries and make changes there. Yes I am in AMERICA and F YOU how bout that?
Just world bias. May God give you a heart.
@@anthonymort5202 Yes. They have a choice. They are coming to make a dollar. The US should deport them.
don’t know why people still go if this is going on.
They are fools!
@@Peekaboo-Kittythey are not fools! They’re simply desperate people. They’ll take their chances to leave their home countries
@@naran3337Then you've never been as desperate as they've been. Neither have I.
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Some times this stories are not true .they just want people to feel sorry for them so they can stay in the country.becouse if the say o all is goodinmy country or the trip they get send back.we got to many problems in other country's like usa .we can not bring everybody to usa sorry but most when they get arrested in usa are gonna get send back to there country .the law is the law .
I agree
And yet they somehow write better English than you do 🤣🤣🤣
Sometimes they aren't, but that's irrelevant to this case, these are clear victims, it was even legitimized by doctors without borders.
There are a lot of different stories and certain regions they need to cross are perilous, the Darien gap especially. We know what random road bandits to do to their own countrymen, why wouldnt terrorists like FARC or ELN or certain cartels act any different?
If people are willing to take the risk it's generally because a chance at getting sent back is better than what they have waiting for them back home. Most people don't want to leave. There are opportunists and human garbage mixed in during any time of mass migration, but there are more of stories of tragedy that lead to desperation.
That's not God's law, that is the law of the heartless.
Your lack of empathy is honestly disgusting
Just so you all know. Many of them make up such stories once they reach USA, to get asylum. Or at least get better prison conditions than other men in the same prison. I am not saying she is lying. But these stories are not always true. There is a woman in my town, when she was caught in the USA, she told the same story to judge and police, but was still deported back. She claimed gang raped multiple times during the journey. But some men who were with her group also got deported after a few months from her deport date, when they told us the story, they told she is totally lying. However, the harsh conditions are true and they saw dead bodies too.
Okay but shouldn't we still believe victims regardless of what percentage lie about it happening? The point is that this DOES happen, and it is utterly horrific. Most people in North America will never experience anything remotely close to it, and then for people to choose not to believe them? That is heartbreaking :(