Rape as a War Tactic in the Rwandan Genocide

In July 1994, there are smells of sweet, disgusting, rotten gases in and around Rwanda. Thin cardboard was ground to the ground. The staircase in front of the church, "(Deforges 6). When the Huts killed the Tutsi tribe on a large scale by extreme division, the usual state of such a horrible image brought about the annoying haze of Rwanda Many strategies such as hatred advertising are well known and are often used during wartime.

Violence during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda took a gender-specific approach and up to 500,000 women and children were raped, sexually abused, or killed in 100 days. The International Criminal Court of Rwanda (ICTR) declared the first conviction to use rape as a weapon of war during the civil war, and the purpose of collective violence against Rwanda's women and children was wholly or in part determined by a particular ethnic group It was to become a group. It was the first time that massive rape was discovered during the war, which was mass ruinous rape.

Sexual violence against women and girls during genocide in Rwanda includes the following: Vagina or butt, usually during rape or after rape. Pregnant women do not escape sexual violence, and in many cases victims will be killed after rape. It is known that many women raped HIV-infected men and they have hints that women in Tsuchi and their families intend to infect the virus. Rape occurs in many parts of the country and is often done elsewhere, such as schools, churches, obstacles, government buildings, bushes.

Hundreds of thousands of women and girls were raped or become victims of other forms of sexual violence during the genocide in Rwanda from April to July 1994. There was no clear written statement on rape and other sexual violence, but the military leaders encouraged or ordered their men to rape the tsuchi, forgave the acts they did and put them There is evidence that I did not try to stop. Compared with other conflicts, Rwanda's sexual violence stands out in the organizational aspect of propaganda, which has greatly contributed to the sexual violence against women in women, the public nature of rape and the degree of violence against women . Given the scale of rape and the public nature during genocide in Rwanda, Anne-Marie de Brouwer says, "It is difficult to imagine that no one in Rwanda is aware of ongoing sexual violence," I concluded.