Ethiopian Rape Victim Pits Law Against Culture

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ABADJEMA, Ethiopia -- She rushed through the tangled brush of onion farms and up the knobby footpaths of her village. Her shirt was bloody, her clothes were torn and her thighs were bruised a deep shade of purple, recalled the villagers who were drawn by her screams.

Woineshet Zebene Negash, with a round face and a puff of thick brown hair, was running from her rapist.

She was abducted one night in March 2001 by four men who hacked down the front door of her home in the village of Abadjema with a machete. Police and witnesses said she was forced into a nearby shack by the men's leader and raped for two days. She was 13 years old

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