Analysis Of The Article 'The Other Prisoners'

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In the reading “The Other Prisoners,” Harding discusses about the women in Iraq who were raped and pregnant by the U.S. soldiers. Many of them kept silence and did not want talked or told their lawyers about what happened to them in the jail. When a journalist came to the jail, some of women tried to say something to her, but the soldier pushed them away. However, with pieces of puzzle, it was discovered that many women were raped and insulted inside the jail. Some of these women were pregnant, and a lot of them were killed themselves because of shame and lose their honor as a woman. When the journalist wanted to search more inside the jail, the soldier was refused and even threaten the journalist.
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