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Female Tsunami Victims Getting The Worst
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Staff Writer
2005-03-26
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The tsunami has killed three times the amount of women than it has men leading to rape and forced marriages.
Indonesia has villages where the ratio of men to women is 10-to-1.
"The tsunami has dealt a crushing blow to women and men across the region. In some villages it now appears that up to 80 percent of those killed were women," said Becky Buel, Oxfam's policy director. "This disproportionate impact will lead to problems for years to come unless everyone working on the aid effort addresses the issue now. We are already hearing about rapes, harassment and forced early marriages."
An article at CNN.com says:
"Such radical changes in a village's population will likely alter a community for good, activists say, with men put in a difficult position of leaving a village to restart a family or bringing newcomers into what often was a very tight-knit community.
The tsunami also could adversely impact on poor widowers in places like Lamsenia. Most would like to remarry and start a new family but they have no money for the costly dowry and they have no immediate prospects of resuming their jobs as a rice farmers, traders or fishermen."
Indonesian women are reportedly being harassed in camps by soldiers.
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