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The web page covers the mass rapes of women by Soviet troops in Germany during and after World War II. It estimates the number of victims, the motives and consequences of the rapes, and the Soviet and Allied responses.
The web page covers the sexual violence against Vietnamese women by American, South Korean and local soldiers during the Vietnam War. It mentions the term "phan thi mao" as a derogatory term for Vietnamese women who had children by South Korean fathers.
Lieutenant William Calley was the only soldier convicted for the My Lai massacre, a war crime committed by U.S. forces in Vietnam in 1968. He was found guilty of murdering 22 civilians and sentenced to life imprisonment, but served only three years under house arrest.
Heinrich Bergfeld, the German consul to Trabzon, reported "the numerous rapes of women and girls," a crime he regarded as being part of a plan for "the virtually complete extermination of the Armenians." The systematic use of rape during the genocide was testified to by Turkish, American, Austrian, and German witnesses and officials.
Several of the testimonies of victims of sexual violence during the Holocaust were by Jewish men and women. [23] Previous war crimes trials had prosecuted for sex crimes, hence war rape could have been prosecuted under customary law and/or under the IMT (International Military Tribunals) Charter's Article 6(b): "abduction of the civilian ...
The web page covers the human rights violations and war crimes committed by U.S. forces against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003-2004. It also discusses the background, media coverage, legal consequences, and controversies of the Abu Ghraib scandal.
A war crime committed by five U.S. Army soldiers in Iraq in 2006, involving the gang-rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl and her family. The article details the background, the incident, the investigation, and the legal consequences of the perpetrators.
In 2009, almost 40 years after the events of 1971, a report published by the War Crimes Fact Finding Committee of Bangladesh accused 1,597 people of war crimes, including rape. Since 2010, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has indicted, tried, and sentenced several people to life imprisonment or death for their actions during the conflict.