One of their legal representatives said they were still traumatised and needed "to break the silence".
It also looked at the great power the Catholic Church once had and explained how the Catholic faithful were too frightened to break the silence and report crimes perpetrated on young victims.
There are innovators from across the region who are trying to tackle the taboos, break the silence and deal with the fall out, be it getting sexuality education in schools or providing sexual and reproductive health services for young people, or tackling sexual violence, or trying to find space in society for those cross social norms, unwed mothers or men and women in same-sex relations among them.
Their answer to Mrs Verroken's argument is that to break the ring of silence around a drug user, even for a fat cheque from a newspaper, is to incriminate oneself and then be shunned by official sporting bodies and sponsors.
More recently, the entire government leadership kept mum for a week on the latest intrusion, only to break its silence with inanities making light of the encroachment.
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But Sony Electronics VP of Home Entertainment Hiroshi Sakamoto may be the first to break that silence.
Firecrackers and drumbeats to ward off evil spirits break the silence, and wafting smoke fills the air as the macabre parade begins.
Some other public interest champions, who may not agree with Mr Klayman's conservative leanings, have even admitted a grudging admiration for his efforts to break through the Bush administration's cone of silence and force the White House to be more open and transparent.
It is my hope that these words and those of others will break the silence and break open a sea of action to move Congolese women toward peace, safety and freedom.
The former Conservative deputy prime minister decided to break his self-imposed silence to take part in a debate on the economy, on 22 March 2012.
The pair are expected to break their silence on Monday in an interview to be broadcast on Australian television.
Only if people in his city believe that the officers on patrol share the values of the communities they serve can one ever expect to break the omerta - Italian for code of silence - his detectives encounter.
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara plan to break that silence with genetically engineered proteins that can make silicon dioxide or titanium dioxide structures like those used in the computer chips and solar cells that we hold dear.
That he chose to break his silence in a documentary broadcast on the American network MSNBC just a few days after being found guilty clearly irritated Judge Pastor.
The Birthday Letters was Mr Hughes's first break with a self-imposed silence on his grief over the break-up of his marriage to Sylvia Plath and her suicide.
In thinking about how to break down what was described as a "conspiracy of silence", the Chief Constable of Great Manchester Police Sir Peter Fahy has told me that key is the question of legitimacy.
Last month he decided to break his silence, giving a long written interview to a British newspaper, the Guardian.
He said he decided to break his silence after watching a "CNN Presents" documentary, "Shoot to Kill, " about the days after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005.
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