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just one thing only one you if you like but get rid of the other is. an excerpt from a diary published anonymously as a woman in berlin in the spring of 1905 the author was repeatedly gang raped by soviet soldiers. western allied soldiers also committed mass rape during the liberation of berlin as so often women were treated as spoils of war a reward for the conquering soldiers granted to them by their superiors part of the

collateral damage that is unavoidable in conflicts or so the claim. for more than 70 years this sexual violence remained hidden from the history books as did the rapes and massacres carried out in 1904 by soldiers of the french expeditionary corps during the italian campaign and these 2 were ex punched from the official accounts which recorded only their honor and glory. and one of the thousands of young women called comfort women by the japanese imperial army who in 1992 were fine the field to have been held in sexual slavery. or the 1990 s. terrible years in which mass rape became a weapon of ethnic cleansing and extermination. it called that women's bodies have become a veritable battlefield right we've just become a weapon of. sexual mutilation in the democratic republic of congo rape

camps in bosnia dilip. transmissions of hiv aids in brought wanda sexual torture treated for the 1st time in history by the international criminal court as a constituent element in genocide. international justice struggles to hold to account major military leaders such as bemba whose conviction in 2016 for the crimes and rapes committed by his troops in the central african republic was overturned for lack of evidence. that prejudice must be. no trial judgment can be allowed to stand in such circumstances. i'll tell you what i can't even call them soldiers or offices in any real sense they were nothing but savage tulips. that they raped women all women of all ages from out of 30 to 68 i saw 168 year old woman

great in the most terrible way right before my eyes my sister and my 60 year old mother too in the most savage way they acted like animals still curious about them out of. many german women dared to speak openly about the mass rapes committed by the soviet army but only a few spoke of the thousands of braves committed during the liberation by allied soldiers from the west more than 70 years ago. the temple was broken in 2015 in the wake of historical research carried out by a german historian miriam get parts book titled when the soldiers came has already been translated into 7 languages. and by to pose for fondue fun best listen soledad the problem for women raped by soldiers from the

west was that their attackers were regarded as the good guys liberators. when it was hard for the germans to resolve this conflict of loyalty and loyally to its conflict i was sort of on the one hand they were supposed to be grateful to these armies particularly the american army because they promised peace democracy and economic revival so i decided to see. it as the same time they were supposed to expose the soldiers that had committed crimes. who were not just a lost as heroes. hidden vonn. this is sash really sort of the research was very difficult and against their ports of the invasion were an important source for these were written by piece here around munich describing the last days of the war and the early weeks of the period after the end of the war. in this part of the archives we keep the end your reports

of the priests we have about 530 reports dating from the end of the 2nd world war. these boxes also contain written evidence of the rapes committed by allied troops documents like these are rare so i am very calmly she so it says here 2 american soldiers raped a very respectable girl in early may as me she had been sent here to work for the air force in a dream the soldiers entered the house around 10 pm claiming they wanted to search the premises but in truth they were looking for the 2 young girls who lived there one of them managed to run away. and the soldiers fired off several rounds so i bought. my whole question is. according to my estimate around 900000 women were raped and. for 2 thirds of them by soviet soldiers and one 3rd by western allied soldiers. as if one susan come up

a rival of the french and april and may 945 and southwestern germany was a key moment another was in the alps when the americans moved into southern the area. data says in the past it was believed that these rapes were an act of revenge . but meanwhile new sociological theories have emerged with which argues that rape also serve the function within the army me to see them to torch bonds between the soldiers making them accomplices partners in crime so to speak and one thing get hard to often are supposed to so on today it's also believed that part of the purpose was to weaken society using race to set the germans against one another they stood for the voting on.

the soldiers paraded in ranks before the people of the parish who turned out to admire the gummi the north african soldiers who had become heroes after their famous victory in maine 1944 at monte cassino in italy. but one thing history didn't record was the murder looting and rape committed by the liberating iraq. that yellow there is only way we're heading for. the village and commune the french expeditionary corps landed in with the. law when they arrived they sought the spoils of war. one of which was raping the women cheat a lot. he still pretty. historian gabriele

agree biology is the author of a book titled. or total war it describes the on i'd air attacks on it only the violence perpetrated by the nazis and the impact of the war on the civilian population. wasted so many she's almost as a mass rapes took place in the area. the village we're going to was one of the hardest hit the reason was that he thought the rapes were carried out by gangs on many women and young girls but also young boys teenagers. sometimes even men were raped by 78 or 10 soldiers. that. all these villages. people they were all victims of this violence. the

gustaf fortification had cut italy into. was liberated from the nazis in may 944 by the expeditionary corps of general. the heroes of the terrible battle of monte cassino. that is annoying yaml. that we're going to meet a local historian he's done research on the violence that was committed in this area . his name is sandra rosato. it's hard to find witnesses now too much time has gone by putting but also this i. do wonder are now with of equal say ok. the 2 researchers lead us to a church located at the top of the hill a landmark in the unspoken history of the liberation of the villa. the only bit of doran's the word liberation is

a word we speak in quotation marks because it wasn't a very pleasant time for anyone living in lane or love what they believe in all of it we still know what's so important about this place when brought down causing the problem but it's important because once word got around about what the french soldiers were doing. to the women and also to the men with this but it's only 4 inches a live able to graph huge in this church 'd here there were 300 women here and men to war when. in fact over there in the monastery is where a field hospital was set up to give 1st aid to the women of court because they don't need other for me as you did anyone in your family to talk about what happened to the men to no one almost into the now familiar and then i love absolutely not i never heard anyone mention it because it was either from my mother

or my father's side for 2nd or the adultery in fact it was talked about as if it happened to others not them of the system is it only later as an adult studying the history of labor law when did i discover these documents. with the woman that. is so and reading them i came across some familiar names. relatives. my grandmothers. but it don't mention i heard stories about a pregnant women who were violently attacked and died. leave me alone like all the women and lay no law and elsewhere my grandmothers were deeply ashamed the very woman was the common law and the got to go. for. the well right after the war these women who were abused attacked in the brutalized.

though had to hide. one little money the normal for when their husbands returned from the front. and found out that their wives had been raped. they rejected them or. abandoned them just like them could be refuted in the bundle on a cattle the it's clear that this violence came about because french officers and generals did nothing to prevent it assumes that if. they let it happen. of the $99.00 of it on the general if they didn't order it the but they allowed it to happen hoping the details would never become public committee to be able to becoming the herald alexander commander of the allied ground forces in italy warned general about the behavior of his troops but 2 months later alexander expressed his doubts that french officers were taking the situation seriously.

there is as you will be aware very strong feelings among french troops against the italians and i'm afraid that this feeling has no junior officers to condone or ignore the behavior of their troops it may well be that reports will eventually reach the press or parliament these reports may be very damaging to the reputation of france. i mean the idea that us all fitting the memory of the suffering in this area hasn't really registered in the national consciousness it's like a separate episode that's been forgotten. one entity called. this suffering also shaped the young women trafficked as sex slaves by the japanese imperial army between 1932 and the end of the 2nd world war south korean activist kim jong described her experiences in an interview in 2016. dead at edward that i learned. on sundays the soldiers stood in line from 8 am to 5 pm.

they're also like they came and went field line after line of them got them out i have women that i couldn't even tell you how many soldiers had to. go to war how many or why 5 pm i couldn't stand. on saturdays it was mid day to. the waltzing of the military police started the line at midday sharp. with him in that the so that the one sit on them with double that would have given that i was beaten many times because i was disobedient. i often thought of killing myself too. long ignored in the historical accounts these young women were described as comfort women sex workers who willingly sold their services to japanese soldiers it was a falsehood the japanese government preferred to ignore here little woman. who are

willing some men in uniform came along or when to get out of these officer and the head of the village. we bought in the pile and they said i had to go to factory that manufactured war materials but it didn't turn out to be that she was the new guy has it and on a day by them that were a mother my mother said i was too young to work in a factory and then are you because the pill and then the woman i said that a pair of fused to go be an act of treason against japan. the woman that i know him they'd have and then he would confiscate our possessions and my family would be deported to our seeing that. i was almost 14 years old. book out that the man who addressed me was embarrassed and lowered his head. for the one that i was sent to

a place far away and i wasn't allowed to leave it there this. time. i spent 8 years as a slave of the japanese army. sweating blood for the filler of what i will today. the women came from korea china the philippines malaysia and burma an estimated 100-002-2000 extension 00 women many of them still young girls they were misled abducted and rounded up by the imperial japanese army forced to work as sex slaves in what were you for mystically called comfort stations. these military run brothels were maintained until the surrender of japan in 1905. after the brutal massacres in what would become known as the rape of nanking in december 1937 where thousands of chinese civilians were raped and sexually mutilated the japanese army expanded its network of military braunfels with the

idea that this would help preserve its reputation and channel the sexual urges of its soldiers. women who attempted to escape were treated with but most brutality i want. the guy you are i know that one day they brought in the girl and tie terror up and make it look at that. you know they grabbed her breast and sliced it off with a knife you can't you go good with the. disease suicide abuse and murder could claim the lives of one in 6 of the young women it took almost 50 years for these historical events to come to light in 1901 south korean activist kim hawkes one was the 1st to speak publicly about her ordeal.

i was nothing and nobody the japanese soldiers raped me one after the other when i tried to endure it to sister run away but i was caught and raped repeatedly. her testimony inspired many other women to come forward kim hucks on and several other south korean women filed suit in a japanese court demanding recognition of the crimes that had been committed a public apology and compensation for the survivors thousands of other women then came forward and the japanese government rejected the claims citing the supposed lack of material evidence while denying any policy of state sponsored sexual slavery by the court the testimony of the victims was not regarded as evidence this stance led to demonstrations outside the japanese embassy in seoul a weekly event that carries on to this day. in 1902 historian your xiangqi

ashi me called into question the japanese government's official version of events at a press conference in 1994 he dismissed it entirely he said that. women who were forced to become what they called comfort women were recruited by kidnapping abduction or other forms of human trafficking you know these methods were in violation of criminal law an international treaty to do with their detention in comfort stations made them sexual slaves. that they want to discredit the japanese army was clearly largely to blame since it was the military that set up these comfort stations the student got it. after scouring the records held in the japanese defense agency library. uncovered documents proving the imperial army's direct role in setting up the brothels some of the documents carried the seal of high ranking officers in 2015 a statement urging the government to acknowledge these historical facts garnered

13800 signatures of support from japanese historians in response japan finally issued a statement to south korea acknowledging the imperial army's direct involvement in holding women in wartime sexual slavery. and by that i'm not going to die until i've received an apology. once everything has been resolved and. i can go in peace. if they. don't died in january 29 teen without ever receiving the official apology she had asked for but her brave testimony and relentless pursuit of the truth contributed enormously to the surfacing in the 1990 s. of this dark chapter in the history of the 2nd world war.

but wartime rapes are not simply a distant history in the 1990 s. one of the more recent chapters took place in europe during the war in the former yugoslavia. early reports sent back to the ground in 1902 by roy gutman then a correspondent for newsday were essentially dismissed the shocking series of articles were published the following year in his pulitzer prize winning book a witness to genocide the book described the concentration camps set up by serbian forces and the systematic rapes targeting muslim girls and women in what was essentially an act of ethnic cleansing. this is a conflict that went on for 5 years during which grateful is used as a weapon of extermination to destroy a certain part of the population because it was muslim then back to. them as

human. in 2014 the lawyer founded the in geo we are not weapons of war to help survivors and fight against illegal impunity . people talk about rape humiliation tera. think this is rape with extreme violence that causes on the imaginable injuries. it's extremely violent sort of out and back when you. it shows that these acts are not driven by sexual urges that has absolutely nothing to do with it them all. this is a tool used to inflict as much damage as possible to the men yet. maximum

computer. in 1903 anthony loyd became a witness to this violence he took this photograph of a woman who had been expelled from a serbian camp following a ceasefire with the bosnians what became of her is she still alive. years later on assignment in syria a photographer told the story behind the picture of the 1st was and was going through a series crossing oceans cross the seas. one of the trucks was over there so we go to. the area whether we're going to move towards a refugee since this was. a war. she moves from the so i. use is the 1st thing you think she even rapes or it's serious. stresses ribs.

just. masses. bruised choose mutual strokes are you serious or just sort of saves you. from the truck since she's in ropes. and there are. ships ocean ships a good deal sit out. this was also highly symbolic conflict because rape was used systematically as a means of ethnic cleansing. terrorizing population making women pregnant using rape as a means of ethnic purification rundown of yard this conflict had rape camps and throughout my career i've never seen that anywhere else. we should take a moment to ponder that concept when the e.c. need to do the thinking supports that. in 2001 the international criminal tribunal

for the former yugoslavia issued a conviction for rape as a crime against humanity it was the 1st instance of an international tribunal convicting soley on charges of sexual violence committed in a rape camp. one hour for me justice isn't just a matter of judging and sentencing it's a way of putting down on paper and recording exactly what happened and that's important but we want to establish a permanent memory a history that people will read about in 100 years time. in bridge. to the 1st trial for rape as a war crime another landmark event. that we forced to change in the law introducing the idea that rape victims should be recognized as victims of war crimes and therefore entitled to the same recognition the same financial support

from the state that's always been a benefit to given to victims of war crimes but not victims of war rape which was not regarded as a war crime. whereas victims of rape during wartime are every bit as much victims of a war crime as someone who was tortured. between 20050000 women were raped during the conflict thousands more died or are still missing was a cool day by this cruelty your rape can be seen as an act of extreme cruelty against the defeated well it was a valid if you will it's almost a need to disfigure them in their own eyes before exterminating them. in their own eyes or maybe in the eyes of the one doing the disfiguring the torture imagine and their imagination raping a woman negates and kills all the men in the family even the male children she

hasn't had revealed this yet it's an act of desecration like vandalizing a cemetery the mean it's about eliminating the place where the enemy exists the most lousy for the civilization flourishes and it's memorials and it's words and the color merry dishes it is so proud of you should it be legal if i despise the people in southwest france is that stamp on their most famous dish coffee that's got squashed to sell yet. they're all for those who commit genocide rape as a way of destroying a way of being that should never have existed so you missed it seen any of it do you a delusion in it lou if they want extermination beyond thought. it's about eradicating that particular flour and pulling it out by its rogues it's genocidal and that's the connection with regular. genocide in conjunction with rape also took place beyond these beautiful hills in what was one of the most corrosive mass

slaughters in history according to united nations estimates in a period of 4 months from april to july 994 between 800001 1000000 wantons were smarter. most were killed with machetes shovels picks firearms and other blunt instrument who to exterminated 3 quarters of rwanda's took to population. on an island what happened was not an interest in a conflict for the simple reason that there are no different ethnic groups in rwanda the hutu and tutsi are not different peoples they speak the same language share the same system of religion they united under the same political yoke they suffer the same destructions so there were no differences.

in her book the historian and expert on rwanda assembled to 10 years of research carried out in the field it was an attempt to explain the unexplainable. what happened during those 3 months was a political project with the intention of wiping out the entire tutsi community in rwanda by the mass extermination of women children the elderly not just men of fighting age. it was a smaller that began the day of the assassination opera one president. in monaco his plane was attacked and exploded in mid-flight on april 6th 1994 but the assassination had its roots in the colonial and political history of rwanda which

over time fueled racism and resentment between tutsi and hutu people. at. the tutsi community was put to death through women's bodies and we'll probably never know how many rapes were committed. many women either died as a result of rape or were executed after being raped. according to estimates put forward by the human research and geo between 250500000 women a believed to have been raped it was a systematic practice to see women were described as more lustful than hutu women young text and 3 quarters of a key text in this anti to see propaganda effort known as the 10 men who 2 commandments relates to women. who 2 men were urged not to marry to see women

not to take them as lovers or as secretaries they would prefer to women who were more honest and made better mothers and housewives. what underlies this is the idea that to see women with something like agents of disorder stirring up racial strife this racism is extremely important because it helps make sense of the cruelty that unfolded in the spring of 1904 when i get asked according to an article in the new york times some women were penetrated with spears gun barrels bottles or banana tree branches their sexual organs mutilated with machetes boiling water and acid. so when you see what happened to any hutu women married to tutsis there was an obvious desire to remove any tutsi fetus from the wombs of these women the future to its.

pregnant women had their bellies sliced open so many hutu women married to tutsis were also raped by way of definitively breaking this line of descent all the men you know definitive. later it was discovered that the government discharged hiv aids patients from hospitals to form battalions of rapists tasked with instigating a slow death. for any mother raped and infected with hiv it meant that 6 or 7 years down the line her surviving children would suffer further mourning also linked to the genocide and this would create new fractures between siblings born in . 1900. from john paul 2 the former mayor of the commune of taba guilty of genocide it was a historic for addict the 1st conviction of an individual for rape as

a crime against humanity as a form of genocide. this is both the most widely judged genocide and the one that has been judged differently before the courts 2000000 cases have been treated hundreds of thousands of people have been brought to court but they have been no reparations for the victims the women who came to testify were not seen as victims but as witnesses so they had absolutely no right to anything i've seen in my own survivors with no rights victims who in the eyes of the court did not exist this was also the case in a 2800 trial in paris where 2 former mayors of a commune in eastern royal wanda were convicted of crimes against humanity and genocide but the question operate was not included in the investigation or trial.

what shocked me following the hearings was that the issue of rape was not mentioned . it would be very strange if this municipality was bad a type of incident that was widely practiced throughout the region. another issue is the rapes women were subjected to when survivors were removed by militia members from churches where they'd sought shelter. only to suck but this wasn't raised at the trial because it wasn't mentioned in the case file. yet. the word impunity also figured prominently in the 2012 trial in mean of us south kivu province where the largest rape trial in the history of the democratic republic of congo was held a 1000 witnesses appeared at the trial and $190.00 women filed charges but most

were left empty handed $36.00 out of $39.00 defendants charged with rape and other atrocities were acquitted including 13 out of the 14 officers recorded as bodies have become a veritable battlefield rape has become a weapon of war. the consequences are manifold and have an impact on the whole of society. family units disintegrate the social fabric is destroyed the population reduced to slavery or simply driven into exile. in books in the region of the african great lakes the doctor and his team have carried out surgery on more than 50000 women and girls survivors of genital mutilation like this 18

month old child. atrocities committed with impunity that he has been publicly denouncing for 20 years. see what i have seen and not say anything that would make me an accomplice in the proper symbol of the that would make it impossible for me to provide medical can to the babies the women who were tortured thought you was the deal when someone shoots a woman in the genitals at point blank range quite easily. i think that's brutal enough could people to say enough. as. hard hitting words that convey a disturbing and unsettling truth in 2012 denis macwhich i survived the 1st assassination attempt his assistant who died in the attack saved his life since then denis macwhich as life has been under threat he knows he's living on borrowed

time. like you velma those who want to hurt me do so simply because they cannot tolerate us denouncing them then we will see them but even beyond that i believe that by joining forces and working together we can act to stop these atrocities it is about. bringing an end to atrocities and to legal impunity didn't. mcquade guy has followed these words with deeds together with the staff of the pennsy foundation which he founded in 2008 to help provide a range of legal and social services to survivors of sexual violence they could join together with several other interested parties to press charges against a preventable lawmaker and his militia for the rape of $42.00 girls under the age of 8 the trial ended in 2018 with a conviction of the former official and his accomplices for crimes against humanity

and rape. it was a historic verdict they're not yet and even victory that same year dennis mcquay goal was awarded the nobel peace prize and spoke out again against impunity. at this very moment. as i speak. i reports lies gathering dust at the bottom of a draw in some office in new york. it was written after a rigorous and professional investigation into war crimes and human rights violations in congo. so the report explicitly names of victims places the states. but spans the perpetrators. these reports from the mapping exercise are pants by the united nations high commissioner for human rights describe no less than $617.00 war crimes

and crimes against humanity and possibly even genocide. so why isn't the world acting on this report. if there is no lasting peace without justice. but justice is non-negotiable. while justice may be non-negotiable this did not prevent the international criminal court from overturning the war crimes conviction of former democratic republic of congo vice president. in 28 teams must be. no trial judgement this was a major disappointment for survivors uproar rape in the initial trial bemba had been sentenced to 18 years in prison for the looting murder and rapes committed by his troops in the central african republic for many legal experts overturning the verdict represented a historic failure. rate put it

a has been fully incorporated as a weapon of war alongside that we have an evolving justice system so you could say we're making progress but what message are we sending if we're unable to convict those who issued the orders we have to prove that they are part of the planet and that means not focusing solely on whoever is carrying out the rapes. the bedbug case gives the impression that those who give the orders can act with impunity. today only about 20 south korean women who were forced into sexual slavery are still moment and able to testify to the sexual torture the remains prevalent around the world. 6 their memories will further anchored in history in 2018 when you see the activist nadia more ride a survivor of sexual slavery was awarded the nobel peace prize along side dennis mcquade. the award was not just a symbol but also

a message. ripoffs i believe it's a question of result of if you score of the or not but until now we have not had the result of. much evil said form of the political result of. volo to society as a result of the north a society poor the. to say that we no longer accept the type of barack t. that shames on shand humanity i believe that if politicians and leaders developed this resolve it would be possible to stop these barbarities.

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