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  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Iraq could allow marriage for girls as young as 9. A survivor says it will fuel rape and child abuseEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Were illegal marriages a thing when Saddam was still in charge, or were legislation proposals with any ambiguity about passing a thing when Saddam was still in charge?

    Yes. No. Respectively.

    Great JAQing off about a dictator who gouged out children’s eyes.

    For those wondering about the issue of child marriage in Iraq before the modern day who aren’t perpetual apologists for whatever fascists they can find to drool over,

    “I lost my life the day my marriage began. I was 13, and the man I had to marry was 20 years older than me.” Shaima’s story is one told only within the intimacy of a home. Nestled on the couch of a modest yet tastefully decorated living room, she sips her Turkish coffee, ensuring there are enough grounds left to read her fortune in search of signs of better days. She smokes cigarette after cigarette, taking a long drag before exhaling as if symbolically releasing her life story.

    Born in 1977 in a village near Basra in southern Iraq, Shaima was the eldest of nine siblings raised amid the violence of the 1980s Iran-Iraq War. It was a childhood “with just enough money to buy bread each day, nothing more,” she recalled. “My father sold me to the brother of one of his friends. I didn’t want to marry him; he was too old, violent, and always angry. But I couldn’t refuse.” From this forced marriage came five children. “I had my first child at 14. I was so young and exhausted that one day, I fell asleep while breastfeeding my baby girl. She suffocated and died.” The silence that followed the confession is crushing.

    https://international.la-croix.com/world/in-iraq-activists-fight-against-potential-return-of-child-marriages