Reply #57: Rape is the first weapon of choice [View All]

[SemperEadem]

against women and children in any anarchal situation.

Bosnia; Liberia; Rwanda; Nanking; New Orleans.

Considering no one knows every man, to say they don't believe the numbers of men who would rape if they knew they could get away with it are that high tells me that they are rather pollyanna-ish about the ugly realities of male human nature during anarchy.

http://www.alrc.net/doc/mainfile.php/torture/151/

Sexual abuse of women during intrastate and interstate conflict has historically been a recurring phenomenon but kept as an official secret. History books have until recently counted dead and injured soldiers but never sexually violated women who were psychologically and physically injured for life. The recent list only from the 1990s is long: Bosnian Muslim women violated by Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats, Tibetan women violated by Chinese, Rwandan women violated by oth enemy men and women, East Timorese women by Indonesians, Kashmir women by Indian soldiers, to mention only a few of the intrastate and interstate conflicts. (Report of the Special Repporteur on Violence 1998).

The horrendous news of the raped women in Bosnia gave impetus for a large number of personal testimonies, books and articles in international scientific literature and media that for the first time brought to light the “Hidden horrors” (Tanaka 1996) against women in previous Sexual violence against enemy women is part of the punishment, intimidation and terrorization of a political, religious or ethnic minority, a mean for a military strategy or other State policy: A weapon of war.