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Learn about the Manila massacre, a series of war crimes committed by Japanese troops against Filipino civilians in 1945 during the Battle of Manila. The article covers the description, causes, death toll, and aftermath of the massacre, as well as the trial and execution of the perpetrators.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
This article explores the sexual abuse and discrimination of Jewish men and women by the Nazi regime and its allies during World War II. It covers the origins, motivations, stereotypes, and erasure of this violence, as well as its impact on survivors and history.
By 2011, it had indicted 161 people from all ethnic backgrounds for war crimes, [78] and heard evidence from over 4,000 witnesses. [79] In 1993, the ICTY defined rape as a crime against humanity, and also defined rape, sexual slavery, and sexual violence as international crimes which constitute torture and genocide. [80]