When most of us think about war and conflict, we tend to picture soldiers, guns and bombs. If we watch a lot of movies, we may even envision hand-to-hand combat, underground torture chambers, and chemical warfare. But there is another factor that is tragically common in the context of conflict: sexual violence as a weapon […]
As Part of Our Peacekeeping Mission, We Will Feed You, Clothe You, Help Your Government, and … Rape Your Women
This is an excerpt from Victor Malarek’s The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade. It serves as an introduction to today’s post on the crimes of international peacekeepers, development workers, and army personnel in conflict zones. Malarek interviewed a young woman named Olenka who was held as a sex slave in the northern Bosnian […]