SheRa on "When the state rapes"

SheRa — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:21:51 +0000

Great post Zohra! You mention the US drafting a UN resolution: "would specifically condemn rape and sexual abuse used by governments and armed groups to achieve political and military objectives" This is great but wonder if they would be as keen to ensure that their troops based all over the world should be stopped from abusing women through prostitution also- or isn't it rape if you pay for it?! http://www.equalitynow.org/english/actions/action_2302_en.html

When the state rapes,

zohra moosa — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:16:00 +0000

Rape has been used as a weapon of war for centuries. As Laura Smith-Park wrote a few years ago:

From the systematic rape of women in Bosnia, to an estimated 200,000 women raped during the battle for Bangladeshi independence in 1971, to Japanese rapes during the 1937 occupation of Nanking - the past century offers too many examples.

But as the author notes it has been relatively recently that the use of rape as a deliberate military tactic has begun to be documented in detail , including its use in Sudan, Colombia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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When the state rapes,