"I was talking to my friends about where we should go when suddenly two trucks arrived at top speed with heavily armed police who pointed their guns at us… One grabbed me and threw me to the ground, shouting: ‘You thought you were a real revolutionary, no? A real rebel. Now you are going to know what that means, son of a bitch. What are you old whores doing round here?’ He hit me and I began to bleed from a cut in my forehead. Two other police officers approached and began to kick and beat me until I could no longer move. They shouted: ’We are going to fuck you like we fucked the whores in Atenco.’ They then moved on to hit the others, some of whom were already unconscious and others were on the point of collapse because of the beatings. They came back to me and dragged me towards a heap of people."
Rosalba Aguilar Sánchez, who was detained on 25 November 2006 by Federal Preventive Police in central Oaxaca City

Resource: Amnesty International (www.amnesty.org)

Where does the line go?

There have been a large amount of cases of domestic violence throughout the years. Over time, it appears to be a case that many people ignore and allow it to sink in their culture. A black and blue woman, what is the big deal? If anything our society has ignored the sufferings of an expanding amount of women who face some form of violence in their lives, be it from physical or mental abuse. In the next few days I will post statistics from other countries to inform others of domestic violence and the shapes and forms it takes.