From Time Magazine, what female doctors in Libya have witnessed: "Corpses of violated women stripped and strewn on the streets of front-line Ajdabiya; of the women afraid to leave their homes in Brega; of the 13-year-old Misuratah girl gang-raped by soldiers who burst into the family's living room, forcing her father to watch. 'She kept screaming,' one doctor says. 'Just screaming and screaming, 'Daddy, don't look!'"
Libya: "The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name"
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