The gun as phallus

 

Reporter Ofeibea Quist Arcton talks about the mass rape of women in Guinea by a criminal militia:

‘Witnesses and survivors say the troops forced themselves on women of all ages in and around the stadium – students, professionals, market women, opposition campaigners – even grandmothers.

Guns, bayonets, knives and other weapons were used to rip off their brightly coloured boubous (traditional West African gowns) – even their trousers.

And some of those weapons were used to sexually violate them.’