전쟁 강간에 대한 에세이

소개

Have you ever seen the movie `Grbavica`? This impressive movie which was released in January in Korea is about Esma, the rape victim in Bosnia, and her daughter Sara who is the result of rape. The Bosnia civil war happened in 1990s, but the horrors of the war is still having effect to the residents of Bosnia. When I watched this movie, I thought, `Why did they rape women? Just for sexual satisfaction?` However, the answer is that rape has significant functions in the war.
Rape is not new. It is happening or had happened in the whole world where the war or genocide is happening or had happened such as Bosnia, Darfur, the Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor, Rwanda, Kenya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and so on.

목차

Introduction
Rape as a war crime
Bosnia and Sierra Leone
Anguish of victims after the fact
Rape as a Weapon
International Effort
Conclusion
References

본문내용

Rape is the biggest psychological trauma that women can experience. However, wartime rape has been mischaraterized by military and political leader as an inevitable problem of sending men to war. Also, it had been considered as a private and unfortunate incident. Fortunately, since 1998, the International Tribunals such as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and the International Criminal Court (ICC) has convicted war criminals of sexual violence. Especially, in 2001, the ICTY convicted Dragoljub Kunarac, Radomir Kovac, and Zoran Vukovic of rape. It was the first time to convict people of rape against women for ICTY. According to Regan Ralpd, the Director of the Women`s Rights Division in Human Rights Watch, "This decision sets a legal standard for sexual enslavement as a crime against humanity."

참고자료

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