International law the crime of rape
Discuss both videos regarding the crime of rape in Nanking and Bosnia-Herzegovina ? Do you believe these acts will continue in future conflicts? What can be done to prevent rape as an act of war? Should the international community hold national leaders responsible for the crime of rape during a conflict?The Nanjing massacre Documentary of the Rape of
Nanking (WARNING: Graphic Content ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?
• Frontline discusses Rape in Bosnia
Still on the Frontline – YouTube
• What led to the genocide in Rwanda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
MODULE 3: Genocide and Rape as Volitions of Human Right
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Rape in wartime is a traumatic experience for the victims, including loss of dignity and harmful relationships. While previously considered an outcome of the war, it is now identified as a planned and targeted policy (Buss, 2009). In the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, rape was a war weapon for ethnic cleansing of the Tutsi community (TRT World, 2021, April 8). Similarly, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, large-scale cases of rape were ordered by the Serb leadership (Benard, 1994). Indeed, rape was an element of ethnic cleansing. In the Nanjing Massacre, the Japanese soldiers continued to stereotype the Chinese as a weaker ethnic group, and hence rape cases were not isolated. While most of the war tribunals have identified the responsibility of the rape crime
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