Colombian Armed Conflict, 1966-2016. G
ang rape and sexual violence from all sides; not
just the military, but also the rebels, other actors. The consequence was unwanted
pregnancies.
Yugoslav Wars 1991-2001. Rape as a weapon of war, sexual slavery, and forced
impregnation as linked with ethnic cleansing,
The acknowledgment by the international community that rape was a weapon of war led to a
new term: ethnic cleansing. Most of the victims are the Bosnian Serb Muslims. This was the
time that the world suddenly saw what rape as a weapon of war was actually all about. We
already had television, but internet was not that fast.
Rwanda, 1994. Rape as constitutive of genocide. Something we need to understand, what
does rape as genocide actually mean? Both Yugoslav and Rwanda didn't happen overnight,,
it happened with the government inciting their own people to be violence against The Other.
So meron talagang othering na nangyari, dehumanization. Incitement to commit hate crimes.
Psychological yun, papasok muna sa utak. Because people thought it was okay. Prior to the
commission of these crimes, there was already incitement to hate, a mental programming of
the dehumanization of the other
Modern times. South Sudan, Liberia, Libya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan. The
Arab spring - Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria – a lot of people initially celebrated this. But the
women had a price to pay, even the people who were part of the protest were sexually
harassing their women, journalists were raped in broad daylight in Egypt.
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