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RAPE CONDONED AS A
RAPE CONDONED AS A 'WEAPON OF WAR' 7
Evidence collected for this report shows clearly that the troops of the Burmese military regime are systematically using rape as a weapon in their anti-insurgency campaigns against civilian populations in Shan State. That this practice is officially condoned by the military authorities can be concluded from a number of factors that will be discussed in this section.
| 7 | The Trial Chamber of the ICTY in the Kunarac, Kovac and Vukovic case discussed using 'weapon of war' to mean a kind of concerted approach or an order given to the Bosnian Serb armed forces to rape Muslim women as part of their combat activities. See Press Release on the 'Judgment of Trial Chamber II in the Kunarac, Kovac and Vukovic case', The Hague, 22 February 2001 JL/P.I.S./566-e. |
Villages deserted as residents flee to border to escape military persecution