He also rapidly spilled the names of eight other men who had been doing the same. One woman forced herself to stay awake all night and discovered a man climbing into her window: captured, he confessed that he had been using a spray made from belladonna to tranquilize the women and the households, and then raping them. Eventually a few women started speaking about these incidents and discovered that many women, from grandmothers to children, had similar experiences.
At first they kept it to themselves, out of shame, but it kept happening. From 2005 to 2009, women in a Bolivian Mennonite colony found themselves waking bruised and bleeding, blood and dirt on their clothes, with vaginal pain, headaches, and horrific dreams of rape. It is shocking and infuriating to learn that Women Talking is based on a real-life story. They do not learn or speak any Spanish, and thus are unable to function in the Bolivian country outside their colony. Women do not study beyond a few grades and are essentially illiterate, unable to even read the Bible, the book on which the colony policies are based, themselves. A group of Mennonites started colonies in Bolivia, where the government allowed them essentially self-rule, and these colonies are ultraconservative: all members wear uniform clothing, work on farms and speak Plautdietsch (a dialect mixing Low German, Friesian, and Dutch). The Mennonite churches vary widely: some groups are like any Protestant denomination, and others believe in plain dress, shun technology, and run their own schools. Mennonites are a sect of Christianity formed in the 1500s in the Netherlands, from where groups eventually migrated to Germany, Russia, and in the 1700s to the US and then to Canada.
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