KRM 220:
STUDY UNIT 6:
MILITARY RAPE & ENFORCED PREGNANCY
Rape of women & children is weaponised during times of war
Genocidal Rape = Describe rapes that were done as policy for the
purpose of genocide by Serb military forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina and
Croatia in the early 1990s.
Brana Plan
A plan endorsed by military officers is apparently key to distinguishing the
Serbian rapes-morally, politically,
and militarily-from retaliatory rapes that were committed by
Bosnians and others
- Not all war rapes were done with genocidal intent
- Not all rapes are aimed at destroying the groups that victims belong to.
Serbian officers targeted women, adolescents and children because:
1. Women and children weren't trained & were unarmed
2. Were vulnerable & couldn’t put up resistance
3. Adolescent women are an especially vulnerable part of the
community with respect to their sexual innocence [Religious value
of virginity]
, - Brana plan was similar to an ethnic cleansing
Mass rape: 3 types
1. Military forces enter a village, take several women of varying ages
from their homes, r ape them in public view and depart;
Several days later, soldiers from the army arrive and offer the now
terrified residents safe passage away from the village.
2. Persons held in concentration camps are chosen at random to be
raped; - Often as part of torture preceding death; - Torture and
murder can also be used to terrorise
3. Women are imprisoned in rape/death camps and raped
systematically for extended periods of time; - Either as torture
preceding death or as torture leading to forced pregnancy; -
Pregnant victims are raped consistently until its not safe to
abort
Logic behind enforced pregnancy
Mass rape aiming at enforced pregnancy
= intended to create an unwelcome new generation that will be the
responsibility of rape victims and any future community to which they
may belong.
- Ironically, the child born of military rape will contain genes of both
biological parents, but will most likely be raised by its mother, if she
survives. Consequently the child will take on the mother’s
culture
STUDY UNIT 6:
MILITARY RAPE & ENFORCED PREGNANCY
Rape of women & children is weaponised during times of war
Genocidal Rape = Describe rapes that were done as policy for the
purpose of genocide by Serb military forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina and
Croatia in the early 1990s.
Brana Plan
A plan endorsed by military officers is apparently key to distinguishing the
Serbian rapes-morally, politically,
and militarily-from retaliatory rapes that were committed by
Bosnians and others
- Not all war rapes were done with genocidal intent
- Not all rapes are aimed at destroying the groups that victims belong to.
Serbian officers targeted women, adolescents and children because:
1. Women and children weren't trained & were unarmed
2. Were vulnerable & couldn’t put up resistance
3. Adolescent women are an especially vulnerable part of the
community with respect to their sexual innocence [Religious value
of virginity]
, - Brana plan was similar to an ethnic cleansing
Mass rape: 3 types
1. Military forces enter a village, take several women of varying ages
from their homes, r ape them in public view and depart;
Several days later, soldiers from the army arrive and offer the now
terrified residents safe passage away from the village.
2. Persons held in concentration camps are chosen at random to be
raped; - Often as part of torture preceding death; - Torture and
murder can also be used to terrorise
3. Women are imprisoned in rape/death camps and raped
systematically for extended periods of time; - Either as torture
preceding death or as torture leading to forced pregnancy; -
Pregnant victims are raped consistently until its not safe to
abort
Logic behind enforced pregnancy
Mass rape aiming at enforced pregnancy
= intended to create an unwelcome new generation that will be the
responsibility of rape victims and any future community to which they
may belong.
- Ironically, the child born of military rape will contain genes of both
biological parents, but will most likely be raised by its mother, if she
survives. Consequently the child will take on the mother’s
culture
