Armed to fight against rape


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 20 Jul 2003

JANET (not her real name) was a cleaner in an office when she was raped a few years ago. A carefree and cheerful person, she had harboured dreams of going back to school one day and hoped to become a lecturer. 

“I had to stop school at 16 and help to support my siblings as my father had just passed away. My mother was working in a factory and there was not enough money to buy food and schoolbooks for my three brothers,” she relates. 

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