i will introduce mr ramsey clark as you all know by now as a former attorney general united states in the sixty's certainly the johnson administration set to go beat leading the defense on the issue of whether international law defenses that we want to offer should be admitted in this case is that this is a or the most important issues in this case. are coming down to the station. you know. because it should such great importance. to our country tend to peace. in iraq you have soldiers accused of violating international law. the geneva convention. and for that matter domestic law course you can't prove a lot of people under any circumstances under any law. here you have a soldier. who served in iraq. you describe leader. his squad was cleared in. two abuses that were violations of international law. you know they were they were stationed out at the international airport. they were handing detainees but what comes in is three sheen your men who had no dinner and have. only code names and they do the actual interrogation. but they order. these young soldiers around on how you handle the

mr. ramsey come on tree -- mr. ramsey, ms. redey, ms. wile and dr. reavy. there are other commitments tralee after 4:00 p.m. which is requiring us to keep on a very tight schedule. >> thank you, mr. chairman and committee and i appreciate the opportunity to address the committee. i have submitted a lot of written material, which would tell you more than anyone ever wanted to know about rape statistics. go into that in any doubt at all. what i would like to say is that i think statistics are important because it provides policymakers with information that will allow us off to know whether things are changing, whether they are getting better or worse, and so we can problems liflie document what needs to be done. i have been in this field for a long time, since 1974 when i helped establish the first great crisis center in the state of south carolina. i would like to think that things have gotten better in some ways, and in some ways things have not changed at all. one of the things that has not changed significantly is improvements in the way that, particularl

mr. ramsey. we turn now to mr.ed, who had an extraordinary experience, having been -- miss sarah read, who had an extraordinary experience, having been raped by a serial offender, not believed by the police said jail and later exonerated when the serial rapist was caught in other similar situations and engaged in significant litigation, which was upheld by the court of appeals for the third circuit. thank you for joining us. for five minutes, we want to hear what happened to you. >> i was working a shift by myself. at about 10:40 p.m., a man walked to the counter and pulled a gun out and pointed at me. demand that i sit on the floor. the question about how to -- he questioned me about how to open the cash register drawer. the camera on the counter and held the gun on me at -- he came around the counter and held the gun on me and said if i did not give him oral sex he would shoot me. i have one of the employees, or one and report the crime. i stayed in the shop, where several officer showed, and i gave them a descri