Bosnia verdict shows the tide is turning for leaders who use mass rape as a weapon of war / IBT
She was 17. Her name was Mirsada and she was rounded up with the other girls and women in her Bosnian village on March 3, 1992.…
Violence Begets Violence / Foreign Policy
KIGALI, Rwanda — A woman sat in the strong sun outside Rwanda’s genocide memorial at the end of February and told me what happened to her…
How Rwandans Cope With the Horror of 1994 / The Atlantic
Consolee Nishimwe has an easy giggle and repeatedly uses certain phrases when we talk: “pain,” “painful,” “it wasn’t easy at all,” “I was only 14 years…
Reckoning With a Genocide in Guatemala / The Atlantic
GUATEMALA CITY — A man in a mask opens a door. The smell of rot hovers in the air and everywhere there are piles of paper…
Q&A: Gloria Steinem on Rape in War, Its Causes, and How to Stop It / The Atlantic
It doesn’t matter where you look; sexualized violence is intrinsic to conflict. Qaddafi’s soldiers committed rape in the last days of Libya’s regime. The Egyptian military…