Rape as Policy in Ethnic Cleansing

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Anthropologist and Cambridge fellow, Professor Akbar Ahmed talks about the deliberate use of sexual violence in ethnic conflict. "The woman is twice punished: by the brutality of the act and by the horror of her family. Notions of honour, modesty and motherhood are all violated... it is thus deliberately employed by ethnic neighbours who are fully aware of its expression as political power and cultural assertion."