“An Iraqi police official in the northwestern city of Tall Afar said Thursday that a military officer and three soldiers had admitted to raping a Sunni woman and recording the act with a cellphone camera. … The soldiers’ statement follows another Sunni woman’s assertion this week that she had been raped in Baghdad by members of Iraq’s predominantly Shiite security forces. Iraq’s Kurdish president and its Sunni vice president said Thursday that a judge should investigate her case, which the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has dismissed as groundless.”
UPDATE: Joe Klein on why these rapes — and the government’s reaction — are so important.
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