The-CNN-Wire & 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. The victims are mostly women and girls, but also men and boys, she said, adding that "reported cases are only the tip of the iceberg." Russian authorities have denied allegations of war crimes in Ukraine. The report "confirmed crimes against humanity committed by the Russian forces, and according to gathered testimonies, the age of the victims of sexual violence ranges from four to 82 years old," she said. The United Nations has verified "more than a hundred cases" of rape or sexual assault in Ukraine since Russia invaded in February, Patten said, referring to a UN report released in late September. The use of rape as a strategic weapon of war dates back to ancient times.
"And when the victims report what was said during the rapes, it is clearly a deliberate tactic to dehumanize the victims." Mission Rape - A Tool of War makes the case that sexual violence was used as a military strategy in the 1992 -1995 Balkan war that broke out between Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia after. The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) has identified that the main perpetrators of these sexual attacks tend to be regional political militias and.
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"When women are held for days and raped, when you start to rape little boys and men, when you see a series of genital mutilations, when you hear women testify about Russian soldiers equipped with Viagra, it's clearly a military strategy," she said. report on sexual violence in conflict found that rape is used as a strategy of war in 15 countries around the world, mostly in Africa and the Middle East. "All the indications are there," the UN special representative on sexual violence told AFP, when asked if rape was being used as a weapon of war in Ukraine. Rapes and sexual assaults attributed to Moscow's forces in Ukraine are part of a Russian "military strategy" and a "deliberate tactic to dehumanize the victims," UN envoy Pramila Patten told AFP in an interview on Thursday.
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