In most cases the bodies of the victims were mutilated.

Seventy eight of the mutilated were minor boys and girls.

As we speak right now, 125 girls will never be mutilated.

A few days later, he was found dead and his body mutilated.

When she was a young girl, she had been mutilated against her will.

And in fact, the remedy for wounded and mutilated urbanism is good urbanism, good buildings.

She taught girls what a healthy vagina looked like, and what a mutilated vagina looked like.

Or, as we speak now, hundreds of thousands of Congolese women are getting raped and mutilated.

Expressing concern further at the plight of amputees and other mutilated victims of the armed conflict,

Expressing concern further at the plight of amputees and other mutilated victims of the armed conflict,

Agnes was a woman who was cut when she was a little girl, she was female genitally mutilated.

I call them nature Band Aids because there's a general idea in America that the remedy for mutilated urbanism is nature.

In six cases, the victims were beheaded in brutal attacks and the bodies of three victims displayed in public with the mutilated heads alongside.

They were getting mutilated, and here, after I graduated from here, I worked at the U.N., I went back to school to get my graduate work, the constant cry of these girls was in my face.

In some countries, up to seven in ten women will be beaten, raped, abused, or mutilated. Often, the victims of such abuses are treated as criminals dishonored, brutalized, ostracized, imprisoned, and even executed while perpetrators remain free.

We are reminded daily of the dangerous world we live in by images of mutilated bodies and destroyed cars and buildings resulting from terrorist activities in various parts of the world perpetrated by those who have ceased to value human life.

She had this amazing box that she carried and it had a torso of a woman's body in it, a half a torso, and she would teach people, everywhere she went, what a healthy vagina looked like and what a mutilated vagina looked like.

I met her three years ago in Kenya. And Agnes was mutilated as a little girl, she was circumcised against her will when she was 10 years old, and she really made a decision that she didn't want this practice to continue anymore in her community.

State sponsored violence against the MDC and its supporters has escalated as the June 27 run off vote draws near. Just weeks ago, Biti described the discovery of the mutilated body of Tonderai Ndira, an MDC youth leader. Ndira had been taken by the police from his home.

State sponsored violence against the MDC and its supporters has escalated as the June 27 run off vote draws near. Just weeks ago, Biti described the discovery of the mutilated body of Tonderai Ndira, an MDC youth leader. Ndira had been taken by the police from his home.

A Congolese woman, who was telling me about how her children saw their father killed in front of them and saw her raped in front of them and mutilated in front of them, and her children saw their nine year old sibling killed in front of them, how they're doing okay right now.

One cannot help but recoil in horror at the conjectured picture of thousands of children ruthlessly kidnapped from their homes, their parents, and their communities and subjected to witnessing gruesome killings, many even forced to take part in those horrific killings, some raped, others mutilated, and all having their innocence and sense of security irrevocably shattered at a tender age.

The fiery emotions inspired by this dispute some Koreans even mutilated themselves in protest against Japan suggest that the wounds of the Japanese war in Asia are still fresh. Indeed, South Korean President Lee Myung bak has used the occasion to demand a formal apology for the war from the Japanese emperor, and financial compensation for Korean women who were forced to serve Japanese soldiers in military brothels during the war.

One cannot also help but weep for the parents, relatives and communities who were helpless to protect them parents, relatives and tribesmen who may also have, in the process, had parts of their bodies butchered or mutilated in the worst possible way imaginable, many of the raped suffering not only from stigma and isolation, but also forced to birth and nurse the children of their tormentors, the majority infected by HIV AIDS.