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C.V.

Ia Merkviladze

Experience

    1. The Georgian State Commission of Gender Equality

Expert Tbilisi, Georgia

    1. –up to now Caucasian University

Lecturer on Gender Issues and Conflict Resolution Tbilisi, Georgia

2004 Tbilisi State University / Faculty of Political Science

Graduate (Aspirant) Tbilisi, Georgia

2004 Dynamics of Gender Stereotypes in the Georgian Mass-

Media Last 10 Year on Background of Social –Political

Processes in Georgia (H. Boell Fund)

Researcher Tbilisi, Georgia

2003 Women’s Oral Histories (OSF)

Researcher Tbilisi, Georgia

2002 To Prepare Women’s Status in Georgia Alternative Report

(ABA)

Journalist –Analyst Tbilisi, Georgia

2002 Trainings for Azerbaijan Journalists (16 Days of Activities Against

Gender Violence) (OSF-Azerbaijan)

Trainer

Baku, Azerbaijan

2002 ”Sexizm in Journalism” (OSCE/ODIHR)

Trainer The Several Regions of Georgia

2002 ”Policy”,”Advocacy” and Resolution N 1325” (UNIFEM)

Trainer

Tbilisi,Georgia

2002 "Women on Conflict Prevention" (OSCE/ODIHR)

Head of NGO Tbilisi, Georgia
2002 - up to now
The Center for Cultural Relations of Georgia

"Caucasian House”

Senior research worker : Auropean-American department / Coordinator of

women’s programme/Journalist/Trainer/P.R. Tbilisi, Georgia

    1. up to now Sunday School in ”Caucasian House” (Horizon)

Teacher on conflict resolution Tbilisi,Georgia

    1. Seminars for Journalists about Caucasus in ”Caucasian House”

(Horizon)

Coordinator/ Journalist Tbilisi, Georgia

2001 "Coalition of Women's NGOs" (OSCE/ODIHR)

Head of NGO Tbilisi, Georgia

2001 "Women's Peaceful Initiations in Caucasus" (OSF)

Journalist Baku,Yerevan,Tbilisi

2001 To create "The Net Against Domestic Violence and Child

Abuse in Whole Georgia (EC)

Trainer /Journalist Tbilisi, Georgia

2001 Coalition against Domestic Violence (Harmony Project)

Head of NGO Tbilisi, Georgia

2000 - up to now Women Resource Centre “ Satnoeba”, NGO

President Tbilisi, Georgia

2000 Multimedia campaign against Trafficking (Women Aid-Georgia)

Journalist Tbilisi, Georgia

2000 up to now School for Retarded Children

Psychotherapeutic /Teacher on Human Rights and Conflict

Resolution Tbilisi, Georgia

      1. International Center on Conflicts and

Negotiations, NGO

Trainer Tbilisi, Georgia

1999 -2000 Children and Environment, NGO

Psychotherapeutic/Trainer on conflict resolution

Work in shelter and at the streets Tbilisi, Georgia

1997- 2000 Georgian Disabled Women’s International

Association, NGO

Coordinator of Kutaisi affiliate

Gaining links and contacts
Rendering psychological advice (in Tbilisi)
Human rights protection
Journalist Tbilisi, Georgia

1999 Alternative to Violence Project, NGO

Trainer Tbilisi, Georgia

1999 – 2001 All-Georgia Human Rights Protection Public Analytical

Center , NGO

Human Rights Activist
Gathering information on human right’s violation
Submitting gathered information to relevant bodies
Journalist Tbilisi, Georgia

1998 –1999 Psychiatric Hospital

Psychiatrist Tbilisi, Georgia
1998 –1999 Foundation for Rehabilitation of Mentally Diseased, NGO

Vice-President

Communication with foreign partners
Head of the Regional group (Kutaisi)
Human rights protection Tbilisi, Georgia

1997- 2000 Association of Georgian Scout-Girls “Dia”, NGO

Coordinator through Tbilisi area

Rendering medical and psychological aid Carrying out training for trainers
Journalist Tbilisi, Georgia

1998 UN

Psychologist

Psychosocial rehabilitation of internal displaced people from Abkhazia

Zugdidi, Georgia

1996-1997 Norwegian Refugees Council

Psychologist

Psychosocial rehabilitation of internal displaced people from Abkhazia
Head of the group rendering psychosomatic consultancy Tbilisi, Georgia
      1. Foundation of Human Resources Development , NGO

Psychiatrist,/Psychotherapeutic Tbilisi, Georgia

1992- Up to now Newspapers & Magazines & Radio

Journalist (freelance)

a number of publications in various spheres (Inside and outside the country)
News-papers “Iberia-Spectri”,” Dilis Gazeti”, ”Tbilisi”, ”Kavkazski Akcent”
Magazines “Etnopolitica”, ”Jenski Dialog”, “Prajskie Ogni"
Radio Europe/ Radio Liberty ( Women’s Program) (2001- 2003) Tbilisi & Kutaisi

1995 – 1996 Children's Out-Patient Department

Psycho neurologist Tbilisi, Georgia

1995 Maternity House

Children’s doctor Kutaisi, Georgia

1985-1987 Children's Hospital

nurse in the neurological department Kutaisi, Georgia

Education

2004 The Rauol Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and

Humanitarian Law

“The Regional Programme on Human Rights of Women” Lund, Stockholm, Sweden

2004 The Centre of Gender Studies

Study Course on “Improvement of Gender Skills of Researches

and Social Discipline Lecturers” Moscow, Russia

2004 Central European Summer School on Conflict Resolution (II Course)

Certificate of Achievement Salzburg, Austria

2004 United State Institute of Peace

Seminar - ”International Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution”

Certificate of Achievement Washington D, C, USA

2002 Central European Summer School on Conflict Resolution ( I Course )

Certificate of Achievement Salzburg, Austria

2002 Training on Policy and Advocacy

Certificate of Achievement Sochi, Russia

2002
International Conference “Women In Politics: Problems

and Outlooks ” Kharkov, Ukraine

2001 International Conference “Dialogue Of Civilization”

Yerevan, Armenia

2001 International Conference “Women in Crisis”

Sankt-Peterburg, Russia

2001 International conference “ 16 Days of Activism Against

Gender Violence” Baku, Azerbaijan

 

2001 Study Course of Czech Language in Karolin University

Certificate of Achievement Prague, Czech Republic

 

2001 International Course “Women in the Leadership of Non-

Governmental Organisation”

Certificate of Achievement State of Israel

 

2001 Seminar -Conference ” Bringing Babies to the World”

Certificate of Achievement Prague, Czech Republic

 

2000 Training Seminar “Domestic Violence, Child Abuse and

Media”

Certificate of Achievement Budapest, Hungary

 

2000 Training Seminar for Journalists “Children’s Rights and

Media”

Certificate of Achievement Tbilisi, Georgia

 

2000 Training for Journalists “Statelessness and Citizenship"

Certificate of Achievement Gudauri, Georgia

 

1999 Educational Program – Social Policy Development

Certificate of Achievement Prague, Czech Republic

Zagreb, Croatia

 

1999 Training of Trainers

Certificate of Achievement

Trainer Moscow, Russia

 

1999 Training on Human Rights Protection

Certificate of Achievement

Trainer Tbilisi, Georgia

 

1998 Study Course On Conflict Resolution

Certificate of Achievement

Trainer Moscow, Russia

 

1998-1999 Training on Conflict Resolution

Trainer Tbilisi, Georgia

1997 Course in Medical Psychology and Psychiatry

Diploma of medical psychologist and psychiatrist Tbilisi, Georgia

 

1994-1995 Psychotherapeutic Seminars

Diploma of psychotherapeutic Tbilisi, Georgia

 

1994 Qualification Course in Neuropathology

Diploma of neuropathology’s Tbilisi, Georgia

 

      1. School of Applied Psychology

Diploma of Psychologist Moscow, Russia

 

1987-1993 Tbilisi State Medical University

Diploma Department of Pediatrics

Children Psychiatrics Tbilisi, Georgia

 

1976-1982 Music school

Kutaisi, Georgia

      1. Secondary school

(Accelerated English Language) Kutaisi, Georgia

 

Publications

  1. “Constitution of USA “
  2. “The President of the Free French”
  3. “Neo-Platonism , Rustaveli and Precious Stones”
  4. “Script and Character”
  5. “The Posture of a Sleeping Human and Character”
  6. 1996 "Face and Character"

  7. “Non-Illusory Harmony”
  8. 1997 “Anti-utopia in Georgian Sense”

  9. “Street Children”
  10. “Who Will Protect Rights of People with Disabilities? ”
  11. 1999 “Psychiatry Is Minor Sphere?!”

    1999 “Internal Displaced People and the Government ”

    1999 “The Poor – How Do They Live?”

  12. “Women: Sold and Bought”
  1. Conflict Resolution and People’s Diplomacy”
  2. 2000 “Abortion- pro and anti”

    2001 "Rwanda – The Grate Genocide of Last Century"

  3. "Violence on Women “
  4. “Prostitution, Organised Crime Or MOB “

2002 “Pornography, Adult, Legislation”.

2003 “Sexual Violence Against Women”

2004 “Sexism in Georgian mass-media”

2004 “The Gender Expertise of Constitution of Georgia” and etc.

2005 “The Gender Expertise of Legal acts of Georgia : “ On Freedom of

Speech and Expression” and “On Advertisement “.

2005 “Recommendations for Georgian Government Concerning of

Gender Equality Strategy “.

Languages

 

 

Books

 

 

Booklets

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bulletin

Georgian - native, Russian – excellent, English – excellent

 

 

1. Gender Terms Short Dictionary

2. Manual on Conflict Resolutions for Children and Teachers

 

Researches:

1. The Prospects of Cooperation Women’s NGO of South Osetia and

Several Regions of Georgia

2. Students and Women’s Social – Political Activities

3. Children Upbringing and Nonsocial Behavior

4. Gender Sensibility in Georgian Mass Media

 

Editor in Chief of the Bulletin “Coalition” (The Women’s NGO Coalition of Georgia )

Editor in Chief of the Bulletin “ Rural Women ”

Training Programs

Psychoanalysis, Psycho synthesis, Problem Solving, NLP, Transpersonal Psychology, Gestalt Therapy, Art Therapy, Music, Therapy, Body Language, Breathing Exercises, Human Rights Protection, Conflict Resolution and etc.

Membership

European League of Psychotherapeutics

The Journalist Women Association

Coalition of Women’s NGO-s,

Women’s Peacemaking Council

Committee Of Animals’ Protection

Czech-Georgia, Czech-Japan Association

Interests

Literature, films, music, dances, tennis, knitting, hieroglyphic script

 

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This upbringing instituting is for 100 prisoners, but there never are more then 30 children. During my visit in the Colony, I got acquaint with 19 “asocial elements”. 7 of them have a scab. There was quarantine. They set in the green color from medicine, people with black past and hopefully not with black future. “Please, buy for me a loaf of bread, a pack of cigarettes, a bar of chocolate, one cake and I’ll walk home – said 4 years old baby killer Rudik. Children, as Rudik can’t go far away from the prison.

* * *

Manana Jipurashvili, doctor of institution: - This children, basically, are children of the split families. Sometimes the member of family is a prisoner or parents are somewhere and children are upbringing by grand mothers and grand fathers. Very seldom the child is an absolute an orphan. There they live with here canons. The main criteria of relationship are what their virtue is. Priest George come and talk with children, christen them… Somebody became a godfather of each other, we christen them. Somebody wrote poetries, somebody wants to become leader. Of course they are not looking as ordinary children… They have a crime past. Somebody “come” to us twice, third times… They have illnesses. Somebody is ill with stomach acke– somebody with skin and venereal dieses, somebody the illness of respiratory system. There were the “Street children” and inhabitant if children’s house.

***

Outside the colony there is the concrete wall with barbed wire. In the corners are the “watch-towers”. Inside there is a comfortable sport hall. Boys are standing under the hot sun, walking as sleep-walkers. Nugzar have “painted” a big head-dress on his shoulder – “Swastika”… Of course, I can’t ask him if this was from “Shummers“ or from the “Fascists”. They will be never become with “Blue blood“, as they never become the part of the elite. Elites have a rest in the prestige places, which are playing tennis and only sometimes they remember in their strong brain about their mass. From them and imbecility Rudic is very large abyss as a distance from sun and land or 150 million Km. this is impossible to cover this distance by stage. Our governmental priorities is an army my and policy – there are the “main” attributes. Nugzar and George… then… at the other stage. Spiteful tongues said that the all strategic objectives were privatized by elite. And for mass remain only to dream: To “redemption” by 200 lari his punishment - 6 year and as a hero of Hollywood to hit at the head of unconscious the “Cudgel of Conscience”. But how, only God knows this….

When the Holidays Does Not Make Pleasure

Ia Merkviladze

- During holidays I feel a the terrible fear, expecting the bad news, alarmed …- said Ketino, mother of five child .- I never been egoist human, but sometimes I feel envy …When I see children ,who can eat and dressed… My children are hungry every time, have pale faces and have not force to go to the school. Sometimes I give only water with sugar, for reason not to felt in collapse. The guests and relatives does not come to us … we have no chairs; we turn upside-down buckets and transformed themes to the chairs. Children set on the bed, take the bag in the knee and do the home work… the hell is in my home- hungry and coldness. We have not the private flat. I rented the “Khrushovka” for 80 lari. We even have no water. It comes once on the 2 weeks. Kind people help us. The money they gives us not brad but the soap I‘ll buy of course. We can’t live in the deity .When the afternoon is coming; full family is in the bed… We do not put the flight, because I cant cover the price, we have an invalid TV and do not put it. My younger daughter –Teona every time lose feelings, that’s why she do not go to school.

This is the history of one family. The action place-XXI century, Georgia, Tbilisi, Mukhiani, III micro-district, XV Building, IX floor, room 26. When at the 31 December, at night in the light Freedom Square people with noise opened the bottles of Champagne, in one family nine years old child throw the plaything pyrotechnics rocket on the manmade furnace… He thought “May be my family feel funny and the darkness of no light finished.

We feel small funny – said me 44 years old Qetino-my daughter lay the “table”. She “cooks” the mashed potatoes, put the macaroni on the top, cut the 2 onions and make the “cake”. At this day everybody has a chance to eat 2-3 piece of potato –macaroni cake. I feel small joy in my heart. My children were with me. I am ill, I can’t move, but this night I stood up for my children and smiled twice… What can I do? We are still living.

***   

Ketino is ill hardly. She needs medical operation. The price of it is 500 lari. She has 21 years old Nugzar, 15 year old Nika, 14 years old Teona, 11 year old Kote and 10 old Asmat.

Children have not a father. In fact they have, but only nominally. Witness of having husband is on the left cheek of the face as a diagonal scar. But 25 years ago the neighbours in past, then loving couple in childhood, then wife and husband Ketino and Joto they meet holydays together. Then man started to drink and bitted her and children. Illness has exacerbated during unemployment. Before he worked with Zurab Cereteli (famous Georgian painter), made coinages. He had much money, but never spent it for family. As a rural man he lives in the rented flat and never thinks about future of his children…. for some reason.

Ketino has study in the chemical technical secondary school. She leaved study and follow her husband to Tbilisi.

-I thought that I shall be happy woman. But today I am very unhappy .I lost everything.

My husband, as he has money, he went to the “bottle company” friends and spent it. We traveled from flat to flat. At 1992 year as a having many children mother (I was a pregnant on

the fifth baby) they gave us flat in Didi Dighomi…This was under construction, unfinished

flat. We leaved this flat and passed to the cabin, which is not mine…

I suffered everything, because want to save family. He bet and abused me. Once he got

tipsy, run to Nika with a knife, I stand middle they … and he stabbed me by knife. After my

crying, neighbors called to police.. And I said them that the glasses has broken and that why I

have blood on my face. 25 years we were together but we did no married officially. That’s

why it is nothing for me from his house in village.

 

- But if you decided to return to your family? – ask her.

- I can’t return. In my house there are living my brothers.. You know, that in Georgia poverty is only for man, I can’t return to my husband’s house… There is living his brother… and …he

Last year in October his mother called me and said “Joto fell down, please, help him...” in spite of I and my older boy run to village…bring him over there. They say if you did not do operation, he lost his foot … Joto has brother in Moscow; I connect him and ask him about operation money... He sent me 250$... But operation cist was 700 lari. They promised us to make operation with 500 lari. Give other 200 money then…. We were I the hospital in the Uznadze street... Days and nights a was near my husband‘s. All my life he beat me, I was a dark blue, but when he was in terrible, I helped him . We can’t gather 200 lari. Medical service did not make for him the bandaging and other procedures. And my boy took him on the back and we “run” from hospital. It is good that security let go at the opposite Nugzar may be have very many problems…

It is Georgian saying that the stone catch up unhappy man on the rise… it is about me- continues Qetino-3 years ago have catcher my Nugzar and passed him to the prison … In this time he was studying in the painting school – “Toidze”. One boy his class-mate abused him, mock him, why you does not dress in the temporary dress, sometimes he take money from my boy and my child have warning him – “I had my problems, please stopped it, if I become craze, it will be very bad for you!” but this boy did nit stopped. And during such conflict, Nugzar for self defense waved the knee and wounded class- mate. It is good that all group was a witness about who was initiator if this conflict. After one year he becomes free from prison. He was talent pupil, He can do everything. In “Toidze” they promised me that they give to my boy diploma... He pants the icons and work on the box tree, makes mirrors. In our shops bring the icons with the price 10 lari, when the real price if it is 50 lari… After prison he was very changed…He said often – “Mother, this terrible is from got, if we can hold out, we‘ll be happy, of course” Nugzar waiting for the letter of release, when the prisoners in the prison start hunger – strike... Nugzar joined them and stay with them at the end.

Last year during 5 month my children did not go to the school .We have not books and note-books... And by and teacher required money… Today I have a debt of school. 1, 5 lari, that’s why I can’t drop my children at the school. It makes me ashamed!

Haw you stand in such terrible!
My unhappy position helps me to write poetries and… book – said Ketino. I want to call my book “Woman’s Burden”. But he stories with this title… May be I‘ll call this “The Play of Destiny”. Newer less I‘ll publish it. Hopefully, may be I save somebody from mistakes.

 

Rhetoric of Violence: Nobody 
Talks about This Crime

Ia Merkviladze
War

One year ago a historian from Britain Anthony Bivor has published “blasphemy” materials about mass rape of German people – defeated people - in the end of World War II by Soviet solders. Readers, maybe, guessed that in this case basely the victims of rape are women. Though the target of this crime, sometimes, are men too.

The book, mentioned above, nearly provoked the international tension between 2 countries. The Russian ambassador in Great Britain blamed the British historian in the cynical attitude towards the Russian Nation and accused him in the falsification of the history. “It is shame –he said.- to make a slander about nation, which has saved the world from Nazism! Without cements, it is strong argument…The solidarity of man and the taking care of “ideals” consolidates the honor of the regiment. Stalin or simple solder from sides of the Volga (Both the “Universal Solders”) never should be mentioned in the negative context. The image of a winner knight and liberator will outbalance everyone and everything. Why we’ll must mention the destiny of women from the other nation and her abuse, when we are talking about overvalues ( Motherland, State, Flag and etc.)? Especially as during the war everything is possible… Georgians say “Everything you can use in then war”, ”War is a war”, “Nobody has a right to condemn the winner”… This is the list of the same “truths”. But behind the curtains there is a living one “unimportant detail” – the fact, truth, which is invariable, as a conscience and is not under interpretation

The rape of women was a valid Roman right in the VI century. During the attacks of Agha-Mahmad-Khan was in the “used” the same code of “Good Boys”… As a during the blood cataclysms of the last century. The sexual terrors was implementing during the I and II World War, Germans - in Ukraine, Russians - in Afghanistan, Iraqis- in Kuwait…. Africa, Yugoslavia, Kharabakh, Tajikistan, Chechnya, Abkhazia…The rape (single or group) during the war was a means of management of war and nothing has changed after this period.

By the way, according the old Georgian language the rape means the violations of civilian rights. The honor not one, but all bus of Serbian women were appreciated by the Yugoslavian solder in the 200 Mark. That was his salary for the transferring the “Contort women” - raped materials, goods… When for him is not enough Serbian women, he “get” a Khorvatian and Muslim women. This macho own up himself trough TV about his “Inestimable contribution“ at the face of Motherland.

The western historians during many years are talking about that the in the 1945-47 the Soviet heroic solders raped thousands, probably million German women. The documentary evidence of this violence exists. It is said, that Stalin has known about this and incite this “knight vengeance”. Soljenitsin was writing about it. Anthony Bivor mentioned that the Soviet solders made the violence against Russian and Polish women, which they discharge from the concentration camps. But, has somebody right to criticize something, which is connecting with the Great Patriotic War? Or History which is became the weapon of this masculinity, fallocratic world and form it’s existence? Women’s point of view, historical experiences are not added in “History”- (in English language- men’s history) and only the God knows, when the time for “History” will come.

In XX century Japan has used the “Pleasant and Comfort Women” from Korea, Filipinos and other Asia countries for their “Militarists Aims”. After some ten years raped women complained the “Winner Solders “ in the Geneva and the Hague Court. The trauma of rape never becomes old but such claims in court are more exclusion, then usual practice. Usually, the rape and sexual violence in the war and peace time is a tabooed theme in the silence ghetto. It is so easy to live like that?! The winner or defeated solder, officer, general, wherever is a “simple” human, defender of homeland. He returned as a hero to his home (if he has it). At the morning he go to the nearest shop for bread and cigarette, at the evening in the same shop he buy the Vodka for celebration of his killed friend’s birth day. At the table he surely drinks the toast for mother and love. Nobody seats in the trench forever. And Violence and its results continue, as they say, online. This transformed in the material substantive as my neighbor woman’s shadows under her eyes and broken teeth. Her legality husband- combatant after Abkhazian War sometimes feel, that he “must” romaine his wife about heaviness of his existential condition or vacuum trough beating her. And women is keeping silence in the war and peace time. After all she is victim and the role of “weakness” obligated her to keep silence. She must redeem Eve’s guilty…

When somebody raped women in front of her husband or family, this behavior is in the list of blow up houses, to hijack car, steal, shot down cattle. Woman is raped as a man’s, enemy’s wife. As a simple stuff without soul, like a property. In the group rape the “participants” behaved by the principle of crowd. “I can that you could!“

The specialists mentioned, that it is not possible to have a normal libido to the sexual objective in the war conditions. But what do cause erection? The black precipices of sub consciousness, mentally disorders or the “force is in together”? It is very difficult to answer this question.

The primitive ethnic group Kikuyu in the East Asia have such tradition. The adult’s process of initiation means the ceremony of sexual violence. The name of this “Theatre of Life” is “Soil in the Land’s Salt”. Exactly there must be confirmed manhood. Usually, if man do not go trough this act of violence, nobody gives him the right to married (!?). During period of initiation the 100-100 young boys group walking village to village, forest to forest. Each groups aim is find women, on which they can implement the sexual violence. Ideal for this is the representative of enemy ethnic group-married woman. Only after violence “Hero” has a status of neophyte. He belongs to the strongest caste. Manhood, which food is a others abuse.

The hierarchs of human’s life, honor, the “vertical subordination” between sexes burned the apriority of violence and clime “legality” of this. The social order returned with adequate answer as a tradition, crime, a naive anecdotes, at the first view, the “Usual Fascism” against women, advertisements, where the background of mobile phone, chewing-gums, washing powder is a woman. Women – material, clay, background: man - operate actor, creation… manhood…

In this case it is interesting the experience if women in Holocaust. Women in consecrate camps were under sexual violence not only from German “S.S”, but from Jewish man prisoners too. But they were victims of Nazism. If the connection German solders with Jewish women hade to solve with bad results for German solder, (Jewish women could apply to the high body, because the representative of Ariel Race have not the right to have relation with non Ariel Race), but apposite sexual Violence did not forbid for Jewish men.

In this case we can discuss, in which volume is the human mentality, moral bar is resistant to the face of war or nonhuman conditions. The was use very skillfully the weak, vulnerable place in the “I” of human. Critics, self-criticism, as in case schizophrenia, is leaving out if the field of clarifying. You can’t demand the answer from outsider. Borkhes said “Human – it is his/her conditions”.

What do feel the solder, fallen in war, with weapons you is in the feeling of his death and weakness? How many steps are between the positions of victim to the violator? One ore accordingly the flight of 9 grams bullet. Before felling this bullet, he became misanthrope, hater of world and at the carnage he needs exciter, doping, strong emotions; 5 minutes to feel that he is living. In the space of no feelings with the help sex surrogate, may be, he want to feel that somebody received his “product”, he make the pain for somebody, somebody feel him and feel “pleasure” from him, feel and he discharged. If the God did not exist for him, without any means is hanging the wood cross on his neck and very far away is leaving the criteria of “ritual normality” - to visit the cathedral and make the sing of the cross. The right hand of priest, which is blessing the solders for killing the others, is not the great consolation. “It is everything possible, if the god does not exist.” Dostoevsky wrote, that nothing had price if it did at the expense of the baby’s tear… He wrote it, but in the evening he took away from his wife the money, she kept for the medicine of their child and used it in the gambling house without any doubts.

***

Not once again a heard about facts of women’s rape during Abkhazian war and “capture” of Samegrelo (One of the regions of Georgia). My efforts to find out the concrete incidents or witnesses, finished without any results. One representative from international organization gave me information about it and spoke about 23 raped young girls, but next day this person changed his decision and directed me not to publish that article, as if we were not talking.

***
 1998 year with the program of UN I have been in Zugdidi (Samegrelo). In the God’s forgotten village, in the left, devastated, two-storey building there lived the IDPs .The group of sociologists must do description of conditions of IDPs. As I came to the first floor, suddenly from somewhere ran out a human being of female sex 20 -25 years old and hanged on my neck. With dirty, dumbfounded hears, crazy ayes, threadbare, open dressing-gown…

-Sestra, sestra, (“Sister”- in the Russian language) do you want me to sing for you?- she cried .

Some women came out with grumbling, moved off her and explained to me:

- Zeinab and her sister are twins. They hade only a grandmother and she died. The whole village helped them. During the Abkhazian war Abkhazians kidnapped them, they were in the forest…They “used “ them well. Zeinab’s sister early time has the mental problems… but after those men she became really insane, crazy. Who is their supporter? We give them one slice of daily bread. Zeinab became crazy too. She is running hither and thither. But her sister stays in bed all days and nights.

-Sestra, sestra, I want to sing for you!-Zeinab cried again…

She ran somewhere, brought a stool and put it in the middle of the yard. Then ran again and brought a big accordion.

I’ll go. - said a woman to me, - she would do nothing bad for you, just listen to her…

Zeinab sat on the stool, opened accordion and “sang”, sometimes I recognized the word “Motherland”.

Suddenly the rain started. Downpour. And, I and Zeinab were in the earth color yard under open sky. The dumbfounded hears hanged on her face, staked, but she obstinately continues to cry accordion. We are standing – I am not an IDP, the member of psychologists group of UN program, with beg, where are the papers- questionnaires, somebody, Merkviladze and Zeinab, with accordions on her shoulders, indescribable despair and real and underworld pain…

 

PeaceTime

 

Everybody knew, that the women’s rappers during “Peace Time” are not maniacs, but familiar men, ”friends”. Only one from ten victims of raping apply to the criminal body; only one cases from ten is finished in the court hall; victim “forgave” violator with bribe or under principle “Better is a broken head, then a broken name” and family agrees. That’s why the sexual violence characteristics by high level of latent.

According statistic information of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia: in the 1994 year in Georgia there were fixed 49 cases of rape (46 have disclosed); 1995 year -50(50); 1996 year -47(44); 1997 year -41(41); 1998 year -39(38); 1999 year -53(33); 2000-47(47); 2001 year 45 (45); 2002 year – 51(49). If we mention the real appropriateness, we must multiply this numbers on the ten…

According professional language the rape is crime action, which is implemented with physical violence, frightening or with using the infirmity of victim. The heterosexual kind if violence is happened more often, but the rape does homosexuals and bisexuals too. Such cases are more in the prisons. According statistic information, the 80 percent of victims do not have the signs of physical violence. That’s why the analysis of each cases need systemic approach – is the women put in the infirmity condition.

The human’s protection system from physic violence is not only “The Human’s Rights Universal Declaration“, but specific documents, which “mentioned “rape. “The Convention of Elimination All Forms Discrimination against Women” (1979) and “UN Declaration about Elimination of Discrimination” (1993), UN Security Council Resolution N 1325 (2000). Our home criminal code also: “Rape…is punished from imprisonment from 3 to 7 years”. During the process of solving amenability it has not importance in what kind of relationships were or are between victim and violator. It is full possible to rape own wife, bride, relative woman, neighbor, or women, who was in the sexual relationship with violator during long time before.

In case the given qualification it is not matter the moral image if a woman, her provocative behavior before rape incident, social status and other signs. Usually, the motive if crime is whim of lust satisfaction with violence. But in the list of court practice is the cases of rape with aim of vengeance. The fellow of crime is male sex capable human, who 14 years old by this time is. The heaviness conditions are the several rapes or the crimes, which include in the chapter 138-141 of criminal code of Georgia. It is punished imprisonment from 5 to 10 year. The heaviness conditions also are: 1.Group rape. 2. Deliberation rape of pregnant woman and under age. 3. Special brutality. 4. With using the official condition 5.Killing victim. 6. Transmission the HIV/AID to the victim, the heavy damage of health, which is punished imprisonment from 5 to 15 year. The rape of under age 14 year old is punished with imprisonment from 10 to 20 year…

The case, which is considered in the court do not stop after reconciled of victim and violator.

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According to theory and practice of “Sexist’s Segregation“, the woman is guilty in her rape... Short skirt, defiant perfume, nice hears languid eyes. This is a conclusion that the victim is a violator at the same time. With the means before I mentioned, she is finding her victim, maybe somebody “spared“her and raped. The Georgian dictionary became richer and at the list of the words “accidental killing” or “accidental stealing” somebody add “accidental raping”.

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Andro Kandelaki (The President of Sexologist’s Society of Georgia, Docent):-- According to my practice experience the violators of rape are actually healthy men, but very seldom they are people with psychiatric problems. During the expertise process often make a simulation, as they are impotents, but after qualification examine it is easy to disprove this. Usually these men are so called sexual deficiency or inferiority. For sexual excitation they need extra stimulations- women’s crying, resistance, or “prehistory” – porno movie, erotic movie. Often in the body if victim woman did not sign the track of violence, which is the result if their infirmity. In the case of group rape, this is the “means” of self-realization if primitive humans. Pack is finding victims and became “winner”. But they go to risk and with this price proved their manhood.

Abel Mamardashvili (Director of Science-Psychiatrically Hospital, the Head of Commission of Psychiatrically-Court Expertise):-- In the our commission we conduct, approximately, expertizing of 15-20 violators. In my practice is exists such case: young boys raped women (often relative), it is the case of rape of grandmother by grandchild. The victim often is a little girl, who could not understand what kind of misfortune is over her head. We “have” the cases of incest. Last time 5 such cases were fixed. A drunken “father” raped his daughter of 9 years age. 9 years girl suffered and at last, when she became 18 years old, she said about it. Father paid the penalty.

The sexual pathology does not depend on the state system, on the social - economic conditions. The psychopathic is the human’s character line, which if it falls in the several conditions, expressed trough several ways. Very often the violator is hunting to the physical add mentally disabled people. He find them between neighbors, relative’s neighbors, relatives and frighten or give her a “bribe” as a gift…Rape is terrible crime. I heard that in Kakheti (One region of Georgia) such violator did not live until court process. People killed him according to the Lynch Law. We have had such fact, when one girl was indescribable raped by 3 man and then they killed her. One of perpetrator was killed by people.

20 years ago, the old woman came to me, brought upper of a young boy grandmother and read the letter of her 19 years old grandson. Police put into his pocket drags, they couldn’t take from him money and sent an innocent adult to the narcological preventive clinic in Sagarejo. Unlucky boy wrote: “Grandmother, please help me faster! Otherwise I will hang myself! Here one syphilitic persecuted me and every day rapes me.”

I put grandmother in the car and ran to the Sagarejo, but it was too late… He hanged himself.

I see familiar women who are raped in the job place, street, and elevator. They are the victims of attempt of rape and sexual harassment. They needs psychiatrically, psychotherapy aid, but they do not apply to the court. The Georgian society considers that these victims are perpetrators… And, this women do the operation if reconstruction of hymen, then married, has a family. But her past trauma accompanies her whole life. Only God knows, how many are such unlucky and lonely women…

Rusudan Pkhakadze (The Consulting Centre “House, psychologist): -- The number of raped women by unknown man is very few. Usually, the familiar men have raped women-“Boyfriend”, fiancé, husband. Each violator has the “individual” scale of values, each case we have to consider in the frame of individual context. From the childhood valuator “has taken” the form of relationship – violence. In his memory the violence feelings from childhood is fixed as a sketches. This will be the image of the violence act directly on his person, the scene of “playing” between parents or other thing. The violence behavior firmed as strong stereotypes. The culture is playing an own role. The stereotype that woman have not to be dressed “provocatively”, if she looks into the men’s eyes for a long tome, if she stays alone at home, if she speaks open and warmly, she smiles, this interpreted as a wish to be a sexual partner. This is the character of patriarchic culture. Also exist the stereotype that man can’t control himself in the sexual issues. But the provocative factors would be the jacket with long sleeves and the long skirt. It depends on what is the provocative stimulus for man. One man contended me that one woman looked at him in a very special way. When I explained him that she had such eyes, he did not believe me.

I heard that the group rape is made mostly by the young boys. Why?
During the rape, act of violence it is the distribution of responsibility. In the crowd we can’t see the responsibility of one person. During street muddle nobody is responded on the braked glasses, stealing shops. In the adults personality is not formed yet and the violence behavior is “developing” spontaneously. The crowd is more then each of them. That’s why it is easier to hide responsibility behind crown.
Very often the raper has a good family...
As the domestic violence has not any limit this kind if violence has not the concrete frame too. In the normal man has so called achievement, satisfy his demands, which can express in the crime. By the interior singes you can’t mention, can this or en other man is violator.
But, how is looking the generally portrait of violator?
They are not self-confidence people and apply to all methods to “compensate” it. They can’t emphatic, and think that they arte strong. For them important only what they feel and realization if their wishes. They did not act only once. In childhood they tortured animals, and made violence in them. The pelagic, law lover, with moral bar human, who obeys prohibitions, never become violator indeed. Rapper tries to reconstruct his “balance” with word or physical abuse.
And the victim is not saved.
Toward raped woman the society is brutal. “If she raped, that’s means that she predicate man to this”, - they say. And why she was agree to accompany this boy in such night? But in real life, may be, she was familiar this boy for long time. When the victim complain to the court she go trough the second step of abuse (investigation, interrogate, expertise, court). Because the victim knows before that the public opinion is not in her side, it is her heroism to institute proceedings against violator. But process often is as a psychological rape. It is very horror when the family blamed victim. Usually, the results of rape never cross out of psyche. For woman it become an unsolved problem, which is transforming (if she’s marred) to the over control of her children. Her self-appraisal reduced - “This is my destiny, everybody can abuse me, I am nothing!” - is thinking victim. Society is not ready to think about psycho-social rehabilitation of victim and violator. The arrest of violator, isolation born in his mind more aggressive. But this problem is not solve in the level of nongovernmental organizations. Under total silence is the theme of raping wives by their husbands. But the all forms if rape have a destructive results not only fir family but for all society.

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“When once the Gregor Zamza awaked after bad sleeping, in the bed he discovered, that he transformed to the terrible insect”. “What’s happened with me?”-he thought. It was not dream.” Such is starting the “Metamorphose” of Franc Kafka. The topic is so: in case of dull life, the human transformed to the insect. For family is very big shame to have an insect son, and one nice day father hurled apple and killed his son.

Kafka is Nino’s favorite writer. “Metamorphose” is a love-story. Nino is painter. She loves to paint what she thinks. She is painting for herself, as she can. She made illustrations of the Kafka’s works. She paints humans, animals. And members of family too. She has two brother. She is middle. Both brothers are ill. There are poor people. It is not possible to keep family with panting. That’s why; she started to work as a babysitter in one hotel, where her engineer mother was working as a housecleaner. Father was the main architecturer, now he makes glazed Dutch plates. “Usual“poor family usual has continued work, if not the misfortune on their heads. 3 month ago Nino was raped by the group. By 7 men…

At the evening 19:00 p.m. after work 2 human beings, male sex dogged her footsteps. Nino rapidly stopped the route taxi N 68, sat and thought that she was out of danger. Those men started crying and still stopped the same taxi. At this point is starting the misfortune of 30 years old Nino. One of them under threat of knife pulled out her to the ground. When the passengers saw the knife, they were afraid of crying, but when the “extra baggage” went out from “territory” of taxi, quietly continued their way to their homes, families. The driver also had to implement his plan, with the cost 40 Tetri (the cost of journey), which was preparing for him the prospect of Gregor Zamza.

Every second the feeling did not leave me that they want to kill me – told me Nino. I believe the God and I did not afraid the death we can’t nowhere to go from the god will. I was afraid only that my family will never found my dead body. After all in Georgia the humans are losing without any information. Unfortunately for me, nobody was in the street. They dragged me across the street and dragged me into Italian yard. Then discovered that in this yard was a room with his owner yang boy, where is gathered the band, specialized on the women’s rape. Early this boy killed his brother, and drove out mother. There were 7, drunk, crying, tortured me. I could not resistance. One put the knife to my neck. When they were bored of rape thy start to beat me. One, I think was weak-minded, he stand and look. At the 02:00 a.m. they took me to the Bathes in the 300 Aragvians (The Georgian heroes) street. They were raping me there. Guard was afraid and did not protect me. I feel that they want to kill me. They did not close their faces. It happened on Sunday morning. My people never thought that it would happen with me. They thought that I stayed in my friend flat or at hotel. When I applied to police, they did not want to institute proceedings against the violators. There I saw the unlucky women, like me, went to police office. Policemen’s did not pay attention to their problems. They said that they bring a suit against those boys and did not want to scare them. I complained about my misfortune to the head of job. He is foreigner. He became very angry and until he did not apply to parliament and ombudsmen, police did not want to start investigation. Finally, all 7 were arrested. Two of them they set free. One - sake of week-mind, and the second was under age.

The second death I felt during the court expertise. - Continue Nino - There were 2 men in

age. First one said for my hearing – she is skinny, but has a good figure, second one –

Said: she has a figure, but not brain… I fell to the terrible hysteric. Could I hear such words? When I went to police office, they gave my case to the inexperienced colleague, but after involving ombudsman Nana Devdariani they passed it to the high level policeman. To me misfortune added that violators communicated me the skin and venereal illnesses.

When my rape attempters were arrested I assuaged little bit. Lawyer says, don’t worry, condemned 15 years for each. I could say in the job that I became ill and “has down with ill and did not announce for whole country about it. But they will still find me and kill or rape other woman. Although, I have very difficult life, but I‘ll never embitter. My brothers need medicines, money, and care! In spite of this, I believe the love, but there in Georgia I‘ll never marry. I am painting love. I have about 1000 pictures. I like to listen to Bach, contemporary music - David Byrne, “Talking Heads”. Many years ago, I read the Dante’s “God Comedy”. The hell “consists” of people, whose hearts are full of envy. My violators envied me, maybe. I am --working (my boss did not gave me up after this incident), but they – do not. I feel pity for them. They are not either in the list of humans and or - in animals. Nothing is sacred for them. Such life is look like Kafka’s works. Everything is tragic, but with the bitter humor. I can’t live in Georgia, may be, I’ll go to England, and take my family. Do you know how I would to paint paradise? – With airy, the pink and blue in the gold frame, where is audibly lively music, and all wishes come true. I feel pity for them who get into the hell, who will never see it….

 

Useful Recommendations

 

If you are alone in your house, never open the door, until you are sure, who is standing behind the door;
Walk only in the well-lighted places. Walk in the dark or bad light places in the middle of the street. Abstain from walking near bushes and gardens;
If you feel, that somebody is following you, do not straiten, turn, and clarify your doubts. Be careful! Carefulness truly is not cowardness! For examining your doubts, try to change the tempo of your walking or suddenly cross the street. Use the car glasses as a mirror;
If your doubts come true, observe the places with people or lightly, and determine the distance to this point. Control if the clothes interferes your running, during thinking try to move faster and run suddenly, with jerk;
Always carry out the means of individual protection;
Learn the elements and skills of self-protection. It is a good mean to kick by foot, punch to the face, knee, back of knee, area of genitals, which hurt him grate pain.

If you find yourself on the ground, stand on the elbows and stroke the violator by foots;

Try to use the stroke by elbow on the chin or face;
Never forget, that it is better to cry “Fire, fire!”, then “Help, help!”. It would more possible to answer to the first alert then to the second.

 

 

 


     

 

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