Viols de guerre, 70 ans d'histoire d'une arme taboue
War rapes. Mass rapes. These terrifying words now regularly haunt international news reports amid attacks and massacres of civilians. As a "collateral" weapon of war, mass rapes perpetrated alongside every conflict have destroyed entire generations of women, men, and children. From Berlin in 1945 to Syria in 2015, via Italy, Japan, Rwanda, Serbia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, and the Islamic State, 70 years of war rape, slavery, and sexual torture.
