'So, if some armed forces constrain their soldiers from using rape in war, what does it tell us that we are seeing such pervasive reports of sexual violence perpetrated by Russian soldiers in Ukraine?' writes tarachandra_1
An aerial view from April 12, 2022, shows Mariupol during Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine.Political scientists have been increasingly studying rape as a tool of war, and they find that, despite common misconception,This is not to say that it doesn’t happen or that it hasn’t been used as a tool of war.
Most audiences—international and domestic—find rape in war to be horrifying, and there is, unsurprisingly, a visceral dislike of this behavior. By employing a tactic that is universally disliked, and graphically demonstrating that the costs of continued resistance will be the appalling violation and mutilation of Ukrainian citizens’ bodies, Russia is attempting to coerce Ukrainians into surrendering.
The use of sexual violence as a strategy in the war in Ukraine illustrates two things—and neither is good.
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