Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST R0xg5W12. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Context. - Civilians were often the casualties of fighting during the recent Liberian civil conflict. Liberian health care workers played a crucial role in documenting violence against women by soliders and fighters during the war. Objective. - To document women's experiences of violence, including rape and sexual coercion, from a soldier or fighter during 5 years of the Liberian civil war from 1989 through 1994. Design. - Interview and survey. Setting. - High schools, markets, displaced persons camps, and urban communities in Monrovia, Liberia, in 1994. Participants. - A random sample of 205 women and girls between the ages of 1 5 and 70 years (88% participation rate). Results. - One hundred (49%) of 205 participants reported experiencing at least 1 act of physical or sexual violence by a soldier or fighter. Survey participants reported being beaten, tied up, or detained in a room under armed guard (1 7%) ; stripsearched 1 or more times (32%) ; and raped, subjected to attempted rape, or sexually coerced (15%). Women who were accused of belonging to a particular ethnic group or fighting faction or who were forced to cook for a soldier or fighter were at increased risk for physical and sexual violence. Of the 106 women and girls accused of belonging to an ethnic group or faction, 65 (61%) reported that they were beaten, locked up, strip-searched, or subjected to attempted rape, compared with 27 (27%) of the 99 women who were not accused (...)
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