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Research on sexual crimes on the territory of Serbia. Estimating cases of sexual violence is extremely difficult, and various researchers have used different methods to arrive at widely differing estimates. Official estimates by Yugoslav authorities indicate that between 2,420 and 24,380 women were abused by Red Army soldiers.
Rape by militants (post-1988) In 1989, attacks on Kashmiri Hindus escalated and Muslim insurgents selectively raped, tortured and killed Kashmiri Pandits, burnt their temples, idols and holy books. The Pandits fled en masse from the state after which their houses were burnt by militants and their artwork and sculptures were destroyed. [17]
v. t. e. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY) [a] was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try their perpetrators. The tribunal was an ad hoc court located in The Hague, Netherlands .
Violence against women in India refers to physical or sexual violence committed against a woman, typically by a man. Common forms of violence against women in India include acts such as domestic abuse, sexual assault, and murder. There are several forms of violence against women, murder (dowry deaths, honor killings), female infanticide, sexual ...
Dražen Erdemović, a Bosnian Croat fighting in the Bosnian Serb contingent, and Franko Simatović, an ethnic Croat and high-ranking official of the Yugoslav State Security Service, are the only indictees on this list who crossed either religious and/or ethnic lines. Biljana Plavšić is the sole female ICTY indictee.
The following articles deal with Serbian war crimes: Expulsion of the Albanians, 1877–1878; Serbian war crimes in the Balkan Wars; Chetnik war crimes in World War II;
Bosnian Serb forces. During the Bosnian War, there was an ethnic cleansing campaign committed by the Bosnian Serb political and military leadership – Army of the Republika Srpska, mostly against Bosniak and Croat civilians in the Prijedor region of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992 and 1993. The composition of non-Serbs was drastically reduced ...
v. t. e. During the Partition of India, violence against women occurred extensively. [1] It is estimated that during the partition between 75,000 [2] and 100,000 [3] women were kidnapped and raped. [4] The rape of women by men during this period is well documented, [5] with women sometimes also being complicit in these attacks.