The phrase 'the raping of' is not correct and usable in written English.
A more appropriate phrase would be 'the rape of.' For example, "The rape of the city was an especially traumatic event."
Skye's interviewees "see the raping of the Land as like the raping of Black women's bodies" by white men, and further, all her subjects from the Northern Territory "hated greatly the mining for uranium there".
Places such as Muscovy, however, forbade owners to rape their female slaves, while the Chinese and the Lombards forbade the raping of married slave women.
When asked why they were fighting, one said, "What we want is to stop the killing of children, the raping of women".
I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street...I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-12.
He gives a compelling description of his mental turmoil at this time, thinking of "the executions, or more horribly the beheadings, as well as the raping of the non-Muslim girls.
The government's deadly portfolio in Darfur already includes the wanton burning and bombing of villages, the raping of women and girls, and the denial of humanitarian aid, all of which have so far claimed tens of thousands of lives.
