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ลำดับตอนที่ #66 : 'Yesterday I was killed but worse was the humiliation which came after'
The post was written by Paraguayan student Guadalupe Acosta in
response to some of the reaction to the killing of two young Argentine women in
Ecuador. Following the murders, some people online appeared to question whether
the backpackers had, by their actions, brought the crime upon themselves.
The
post has been shared more than 700,000 times since it was posted on Facebook.
In it, Acosta
imagines events from the perspective of the victims, María Coni, 22, and Marina
Menegazzo, 21.
"Yesterday I was killed … but worse than death was the humiliation which came
after," it begins.
According to the police account of the murders, the two
Argentine tourists had run out of money in Ecuador when they met a pair of men
who offered them a place to stay. But before the next morning, police say, José
María Coni, 22, and Marina Menegazzo, 21, were dead - allegedly murdered by the
men they thought were doing them a favour. The bodies were stuffed into plastic
bags. Two men have reportedly confessed to the crime.
It might have been a brutal, but sadly all too common crime story. But the story fuelled a larger
discussion in the days after the killings, after some of the people commenting
online questioned why the women were "travelling alone"
That phrase in Spanish - #viajosola - was soon trending on
Twitter, with around 5,000 mentions in the past few weeks. Many pointed out
that the women of course weren't travelling alone - they were together at the
time - and defended not the victims but the idea of solo female travel.
"The first time I travelled alone was when I was 16, I've
done so many times since, even after I got married. And I will not stop doing
#viajosola," one woman commented. Another tweeted: "I want to do
travel alone without the fear I'll be punished for it."
As
reported by BBC Mundo (in Spanish), a prominent Argentine
psychiatrist questioned why the women "took a risk". Although he
later clarified he didn't mean to blame anyone but the alleged perpetrators for the
murders, he was caught up in the backlash.
Acosta
told BBC Trending she was moved to write her poem post reading online comments
which seemed to blame the victims.
"These kinds of comments are often heard in Latin American
countries when the murder of a woman happens."
In her poem one of the victims rails against the "useless questions"
that are asked of female victims. "What clothes were you wearing? Why were
you alone? Why would a woman travel without a companion? You went into a
dangerous neighbourhood, what did you expect?"
Acosta said she was surprised by how widely her post, which ends
with a feminist rallying
cry, was shared.
"There are hundreds of laws under which (women) are treated
as equals. But while that's the law, the real world is something else,"
she says. "We must all start practicing more empathy, put ourselves in the heads of others and
try to understand. Only this way will we achieve real change."
backlash (n.)
a strong feeling among a group of people in reaction to a change or recent events in society or politics:
alleged (adj.)
said or thought by some people to be the stated bad or illegal thing, although you have no proof:
brutal (Adj.)
cruel,
violent, and completely without feelings:
not considering someone's feelings:
prominent (Adj.)
very well known and important:
Something that is in a prominent position can easily be seen:
perpetrators
(n.)
someone who has committed a crime or a violent or harmfulact:
rail (v.)
rally (n.)
a public meeting of a large group of people, especiallysupporters of a particular opinion:
(v.)
to (cause to) come together in order to providesupport or make a shared effort:
empathy (n.)
the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiencesby imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situation
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