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Rape during the Bosnian War
Use of rape as a military strategy during the Bosnian War
Rape during the Bosnian War
Rape during the Bosnian War concerns the mass systemic sexual violence mainly targeted against women and girls, but in some instances against males. While people from all ethnic groups committed rape, the vast majority of rapes were perpetrated by Bosnian Serb forces of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS) and Serb paramilitary units, who used rape as an instrument of terror and a key tactic in their programme of ethnic cleansing. Estimates of the number of women raped during the war range between 10,000 and 50,000 and of male victims of sexual violence as 3,000. Accurate numbers are difficult to establish and it is believed that the number of unreported cases is much higher than reported ones. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) declared that "systematic rape" and "sexual enslavement" in time of war was a crime against humanity, second only to the war crime of genocide. Although the ICTY did not treat the mass rapes as genocide, many have concluded from...
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