Genocidal rape
[22] According to Amnesty International, the use of rape during times of war is not a by-product of conflicts but rather a pre-planned and deliberate military strategy.
Journalists and human rights organizations have documented campaigns of genocidal rape during conflicts in former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Liberia, Sudan, Uganda, and during the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
[24] One objective of genocidal rape is forced pregnancy, so that the aggressing actor not only invades the targeted population's land, but their bloodlines and families as well.
[31] Some perpetrators believed that women and girls could be successfully assimilated into Muslim Turkish culture, unlike men and boys.
[33] Additionally, Turks publicly raped the wives, daughters, and other female relatives of important Armenian men.
In addition to dehumanizing the victims, these targeted rapes intimidated the Armenian leadership into submission and dissuaded them from resisting.
Massacres were especially prevalent along the Black Sea coast while the Russians invaded and the Turkish troops fell back.
[4] During Sayfo, or the Assyrian genocide, Turkish soldiers followed the same pattern: they massacred the young men and deported the women, children, and elderly.
An interview with a survivor gave an account of gang rape, forced cannibalism of a fetus taken from an eviscerated woman, and child murder.
[48] The International Military Tribunal for the Far East estimated that 20,000 women were raped, including infants and the elderly.
[50] The women were often killed immediately after being raped, often through explicit mutilation[51] or by stabbing a bayonet, long stick of bamboo, or other objects into the vagina.
In case of resistance or anything that seems like disapproval, there is a bayonet stab or a bullet ... People are hysterical ... Women are being carried off every morning, afternoon and evening.
The whole Japanese army seems to be free to go and come as it pleases, and to do whatever it pleases.During the Rwandan genocide, the violence took a gender specific form, with women and girls being targeted in a systematic campaign of sexual assault.
[58] During the conflict in Bosnia Allen gave a definition of genocidal rape as "a military policy of rape for the purpose of genocide currently practiced in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia by the Yugoslav army the Bosnian Serb forces and the irregular Serb forces known as Chetniks".
[Note 3][9][60] The acts of violence which were committed against women during the Partition of India have also been cited as examples of genocidal rape.
Dyan Mazurana et al argued that the "patterns of rape and sexual violence carried out [in the Tigray War] by the ENDF, the EDF and Amhara regional militia and special forces against Tigrayan civilians are consistent with acts of genocide, potentially conducted with the intent of destroying the Tigrayan people.
