Activist and retired Army Colonel Ann Wright has been indispensable to the effort to prompt a renewed investigation of the death in Iraq of Pfc. LaVena Johnson. She has also fought to make known the wider issue of murder and sexual assault of women in the armed forces. Col. Wright attended the recent hearings on sexual assault in the military held by the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, and has written at Truthdig a critical account of the refusal of the Department of Defense to allow a witness to be heard:
Sexual Assault in the Military: A DoD Cover-Up?
There was quite a struggle in Congress this week. The Department of Defense refused to allow the senior civilian in charge of its Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) to testify in Thursday
I’m glad there are activists such as Ann out there. I think it’s a sad irony that her career ended when she chose to protest the same war that Johnson went on to serve and die in. It seems like just when you think the U.S. military can’t be more messed up, you hear about the outrageously high rate of female troops being raped, and then getting killed when they try to report the crime. I don’t even know what else to say about this issue.
“I think it’s a sad irony that her career ended when she chose to protest the same war that Johnson went on to serve and die in. It seems like just when you think the U.S. military can’t be more messed up, you hear about the outrageously high rate of female troops being raped, and then getting killed when they try to report the crime. I don’t even know what else to say about this issue.”
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