Family and community support

Family and community support

It has already been mentioned that in 21% of the incidents, members of the survivor's family and community leaders dared to report the cases to the military authorities. This indicates that in many cases, family and community members tried to assist the survivor in seeking justice. 

Furthermore, in ten cases where further details of family responses to the incidents were documented, it is stated that husbands and other family members were helpful to the survivor: they were either "supportive", "understood" her, or "didn't blame" her.

However, it is noteworthy in a number of cases that the survivor was actually blamed by family or other community members following the incidents.