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The Shame of it: Gender-Based Terrorism in the Former Yugoslavia and the Failure of International Human Rights Law to Comprehend the Injuries

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The Shame of it: Gender-Based Terrorism in the Former Yugoslavia and the Failure of International Human Rights Law to Comprehend the Injuries
Author(s)Ray, Amy
AbstractThe deliberate use of rape as a weapon of war was a central strategy in the Serbian effort to seize and maintain territorial control in the former Yugoslavia. The victimization of the women in the former Yugoslavia begins with rape: not isolated incidents of soldiers gone astray, but rather a carefully conceived and effective war strategy of the systematic rape of thousands of women
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Pages793
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SourceAmerican University Law Review
VolumeNo46
PubDate 1997
ISBN_ISSN0003-1453


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