Body parts littered the pavement, many victims rendered unrecognisable by the blast at close quarters.
Each entry is an avatar of outrage over the depredations of power against its multifarious victims, those rendered helpless by poverty, religion, race, sexual identity or — as in the vignettes about Galileo and Isaac Babel — the simple accident of being right when the truth defined by the prevailing authority was wrong.
During a sexual assault, the victims are rendered helpless and voiceless through now fault of their own.
My conclusions would, I figured, be somewhat different: trauma – particularly sexual trauma – affects memory, often in ways that allow predators to traumatize their victims while simultaneously rendering them unreliable witnesses to their own lives.
if the victim agrees, services rendered to the victim or a person or organization other than the victim.
Victims are held incommunicado, rendering the level of inhumanity even worse in the North Korean gulag than in that of the former Soviet Union.The testimony of one recent escapee, Shin Dong-hyuk (a new name), stands out.
How do we go beyond the narratives that continue to center on narco criminals while rendering their victims invisible?
For these young black boys, and countless others, were tried, convicted, and executed by a system that finds their black masculinity as an offense, per se, rendering the victims guilty until proven innocent.
It was years before "date rape" drugs made the news, but it was a perfect modus operandi for a predator, rendering his victim unconscious or so incapacitated as to be unable to clearly answer police questions about the incident.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a serious psychiatric condition caused by an overwhelming psychic stressor, rendering the victim unable to stop reliving the sense of helplessness, terror and impending annihilation.
