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CorrespondentWednesday, 30 October, 2002, 20:03 GMT
Mafia Women - Interactive Forum
Car riddled with bullets
Women can no longer hide behind the mafia screen
A deadly shoot-out in a sleepy, southern Italian village has marked a new, dark era in mafia savagery. Women have become both the victims and the suspected killers. The last mafia taboo has been broken.


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Yvonne Ridley
Yvonne Ridley

Correspondent's Pam Giddy is joined by international journalist Yvonne Ridley and "Mafia Women" producer Juliet Dwek to examine how and why some women have become seduced by violence for a cause.

What makes women take up a cause worth dying for? - from FARC rebels in Colombia to the latest Chechen rebels siege in Moscow - women are heavily involved.

Why?

Juliet Dwek
Juliet Dwek

After the programme on Sunday 3 November 2002 at 2000 GMT, you will be able to view, and join, the interactive discussion from this website and on digital television.

You can send your comments at any time, by using the e-mail form below.

Mafia Women: Sunday 3 November 2002 on BBC Two at 1915 GMT

Producer / Reporter: Juliet Dwek
Editor: Karen O'Connor
Deputy Editor: David Belton
Online Producer: Andrew Jeffrey


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Juliet Dwek
Mafia Women
Domenico Airomo, Public Prosecutor
"What's new about this case is that there are women on both sides"
Gerardo Puopolo, Chief of Police
"Twenty shots were fired which travelled through the windscreen"
Vox pops
"Maybe women have achieved equal rights now"
Anonymous teenager
"He really must get his revenge by killing other people"
Mafia Women

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