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...York Times in February 1988.) He also drops in on the trial of John Ivan Demjanjuk, the Cleveland autoworker accused of being the infamous Ivan the Terrible at the Treblinka death camp . When he first catches sight of the man who either did or did not commit atrocious crimes, Roth muses, "So there he was. Or wasn...
...sometimes, young men in war may commit rape in order to please their elders, their officers, and win a sort of father-to-son approval. The rape is proof of commitment to the unit's fierceness. A young man willing to do hideous things has subordinated his individual conscience in order to fuse with the uncompromising purposes of the group. A man seals his allegiance in atrocity...
...should be possible to draw a graph predicting the level of rape that would occur in a battle context according to the officers' degrees of tolerance or disapproval. The greatest number of rapes would happen if 1) the soldiers were under direct orders to commit rape. Slightly fewer would take place if 2) there were fully articulated official approval of rape, as with the Soviets entering Germany in 1945. The levels would descend with 3) tacit $ official approval of rape, 4) official neutrality on the subject, 5) tacit official disapproval, 6) spoken official disapproval, 7) direct orders not to rape...
Even armies operating under conditions 7 and 8 may commit numerous rapes. Rapes increase geometrically if the soldiers feel that civilian women are implicated in the war against them. American soldiers in Viet Nam committed an unknowable number of rapes, including those attending the massacre at My Lai, in part when the units were incompetently or viciously led, but also in part because it was hard for the Americans to distinguish officially friendly Vietnamese civilians from the Viet Cong...
...Pakistan. Kansi, a member of a wealthy Pakistani family, has reportedly been seen in his hometown of Quetta. "We're trying to confirm that he's there," says Fairfax County police department spokesperson Robert Wall. "Pakistani officials are cooperating in the fullest." Still, the question remains: If Kansi did commit the alleged crime, why? No explanation so far is satisfactory. Says Wall: "There are a million theories. They have to be % checked one at a time." Law-enforcement officials may have to catch the man to find the motive...