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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.
The web page documents the cases of rape, sexual assault, and other sexual violence committed by Russian armed forces and police in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It also discusses the nature, extent, and effects of sexual violence as a weapon of war, and the challenges of investigation and prosecution.
On 19 February 2024, a group of United Nations special rapporteurs released a report stating "rights experts call for probe into violations against Palestinian women and girls." According to the report, there is evidence that during the Israel–Hamas war, Palestinian women and girls were subjected to wartime sexual violence. [7]
According to a press release by the United Nations Security Council on 19 June 2008, [2]. The Security Council today demanded the “immediate and complete cessation by all parties to armed conflict of all acts of sexual violence against civilians,” expressing its deep concern that, despite repeated condemnation, violence and sexual abuse of women and children trapped in war zones was not ...
[31] [32] The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women said that "Since 7 October, the assault on Palestinian women’s dignity and rights has taken on new and terrifying dimensions, as thousands have become victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and an unfolding genocide". [33]
During the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, dozens of Israeli women, girls, and men were reportedly subject to sexual violence, including rape and sexual assault by Hamas or other Gazan militants. [1] The militants involved in the attack are accused of having committed acts of gender-based violence, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Amal Clooney is one of the legal experts who recommended that the chief prosecutor of the world's top war crimes court seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ...
Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre [2] (also unofficially called סרט הזוועות, lit. ' the atrocity film ' or ' the film of horrors ' in Hebrew) is a compilation by the IDF Spokesperson's Unit of raw footage from the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.