Swaziland Bans Women Wear Mini Skirts

                            

Mbabane, KOMPAS.com - In order to reduce cases of rape, Swaziland government-governance in Africa's last absolute monarchy-issuing country's ban on women wearing miniskirts and clothes over the open.

Government assess that clothing that encourages rape. And for anyone who does not heed these rules then sentenced to prison for six months waiting. This rule was never applied to the British colonial government in 1889.

This rule was implemented in response to the protests in the country's second largest city of Manzini. Last month the city's women held a demonstration demanding equal rights with men. Several women protesters wearing miniskirts.

In Swaziland, women's position in law is very weak. Two-thirds of teenage girls are victims of sexual assault.

"Perpetrators of rape more easily perform actions, because they live off half of cloth worn by women," said police spokesman Swaziland, Wendy Hleta.

This prohibition also applicable for jeans with a tank top and short pieces. However, indiamu costume, a mini loin cloth worn for King Mswati dancers that do not cover the buttocks of the dancers, not banned.

Police quibble costumes 'sexy' is not prohibited because there is no case of a girl being raped because wearing a costume.

In addition to a ban on wearing revealing clothes, police Swaziland also recommend the correct way to pick up women while they are falling. The purpose in this way so that women do not make themselves vulnerable to attack because it makes men 'passionate'.

"The women are very polite when when taking something down, you squat but with the upper body upright, rather than bent to pick up the stuff, "said Hleta.

However, Hleta not clear whether women who take goods fell the wrong way will get penalized.