Shaken By Reports Of Rape In Ukraine, Bosnian War Crimes Survivors Urge Ukrainian Women To Document

[Uncle Joe]

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The Hague-based International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor launched an investigation in March into possible crimes committed in Ukraine since November 2013, reaching back to before Russia covertly invaded and annexed Crimea in 2014 in what was the initial phase of a decade-long conflict.

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The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued an extraordinary statement warning of reported rape and other atrocities by Russian troops, calling for the "adequate preservation of evidence" and international political will "in the medium and long term" to investigate such crimes.

Individual rape accounts have also emerged, with detailed statements by victims in some cases already handed over to Ukrainian authorities continuing to operate despite Russian military offensives all over the country.

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Intercepted Russian statements from the battlefield have even incriminated troops in the suspected use of rape to terrorize Ukrainians and prosecute the war.

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https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-rapes-war-crimes-bosnian-survivors/31823846.html

[BeckyDem]

1. Some of the victims have been elderly women, I'm stressing elderly.

Absolutely horrifying to listen to their accounts.

[niyad]

2. Rape has always been used in war to terrorize the population, and to demonstrate

the control and contempt by the invaders, including forced birth.