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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 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.
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 ...
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.
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann was a German overseer in the Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. She was executed by hanging on Biskupia Górka Hill near GdaĆsk in 1946 for crimes against humanity.
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]