Mrs BB
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Listening to testimonies it is abundantly clear that countless women in these Pakistani communities knew EXACTLY what their relatives were doing, but said nothing. In these towns, thousands and thousands knew. The scale of rape would mean it’s impossible not to. Impossible. I spoke to one survivor who stated that the imam knew all about it because his son was raping a 15 year old friend of our witness, impregnating her. Her words? ‘They look after their own community.’ Please think about what that means, from somebody who understands the consequences of that far better than all of us. In my view, all of these complicit individuals are as guilty as the rapists themselves. This is the ugly truth that almost nobody in parliament wants to confront. But it’s there, it has been for decades. We must now have the courage to call it out.























