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...panelists spoke after a showing of Rape Is..., a short documentary about dealing with sexual assault. Between victims’ harrowing stories, Rosenfeld offered her own insistent voice...
...ethnic wars, especially during stalemates, Bloom argued, systematic rape can “implode the society from within,” targeting women as bearers of their society’s culture and identity...
...methods for implementing rape are also more complex and systematic than often assumed, she said. For example, Bloom termed one method “rape and kill,” which can consist of strategies such as spreading HIV and other diseases to victim groups...
...Rape is also exploited to remove target groups from their homelands. In Bosnia, less than 8 percent of the population returned to places where rape was systematically enforced during the wars there...
...rape in war often permanently alters the affected community. Bloom explained that areas targeted with the tactic often experience a 500 percent increase in post-war calls to rape crisis centers—pointing to lasting domestic ramifications...