RAPE HAS ALWAYS BEEN USED AS A WEAPON OF WAR IN PATRIARCHY - NEITHER MEN ON THE RIGHT NOR MEN ON THE LEFT WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT
BOTH sides in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict think they're justified in killing anything that moves. NEITHER side is "defending" itself. What's happening is what happens in ALL wars - misogynist MEN are taking out their grievances with other men by annihilating women's bodies.
Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War https://youtu.be/JTVVCfvrITY
RAPE AS A WEAPON OF WAR AND IT'S LONG-TERM EFFECTS ON VICTIMS AND SOCIETY
https://www.peacewomen.org/sites/default/files/vaw_rapeasaweaponofwar_stopmodernslavery_may2008_0.pdf
"Rape in warfare is rooted deep in world history and well established in modern warfare, however it can no longer remain an issue silenced by suppressive governments, ignorance and fear. The idea that rape is a normal byproduct of war, due to its continual use historically and currently, only perpetuates its use. The seeing of it as normal and its continual impunity increases its use as a weapon, the perpetrators are less likely to be tried for rape than murder. "
Rape as a Weapon of War and it’s Long-term Effects on Victims and Society
Rape as a Weapon of War and Genocide: https://www.cmc.edu/sites/default/files/humanrights/Rape%20as%20a%20tool%20of%20war.pdf
“Rape committed during war is often intended to terrorize the population, break up families, destroy communities, and, in some instances, change the ethnic makeup of the next generation. Sometimes it is also used to deliberately infect women with HIV or render women from the targeted community incapable of bearing children.” For centuries, rape has been used as a spoil of war and as a weapon—possibly the most brutal weapon of war—in order to exercise power and dominance over women and undermine the social fabric of society. It is a method of torture both physical and psychological, and is a crime, just like murder, and in many cases."
Curious erasures: the sexual in wartime sexual violence https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1204983/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Rape as a Weapon of War: Women 's Human Rights During the Dissolution of Yugoslavia https://is.gd/YsJZEw
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