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        "msgid": "rape-protesters-get-a-shock-1447893297",
        "date": "1998-09-11 00:00:00",
        "title": "Rape protesters get a shock",
        "author": null,
        "source": "DPA",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Rape protesters get a shock SINGAPORE (DPA): Singapore's top women's group got a surprise when it handed Indonesian embassy officials a petition protesting alleged mass rapes in Indonesia, the group's president said on Thursday. Indonesian officials on Wednesday accepted the 40,000- signature petition -- but then offered to let the Singaporeans meet a group of 22 Indonesian maids who say that they were raped or abused in Singapore and are being sheltered at the embassy.",
        "content": "<p>Rape protesters get a shock<\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE (DPA): Singapore's top women's group got a surprise<br>\nwhen it handed Indonesian embassy officials a petition protesting<br>\nalleged mass rapes in Indonesia, the group's president said on<br>\nThursday.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesian officials on Wednesday accepted the 40,000-<br>\nsignature petition -- but then offered to let the Singaporeans<br>\nmeet a group of 22 Indonesian maids who say that they were raped<br>\nor abused in Singapore and are being sheltered at the embassy.<\/p>\n<p>The Indonesians' move was a \"face-saving\" maneuver, said<br>\nPhyllis Chew, president of Singapore's Association of Women for<br>\nAction and Research (AWARE). \"It's very hard to receive<br>\ncriticism,\" Chew said. \"You have to deflect it somehow.\"<\/p>\n<p>Chew said AWARE had declined to meet the maids immediately.<br>\n\"It's face-saving... I thought I would give that to them,\" she<br>\nsaid. \"I didn't come forward and say 'that's not the point.'\"<\/p>",
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