Rape is “the least condemned war crime,” according to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.1 The “historic breakthrough” made in 2001 when the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) charged three men with seven counts of violation of the laws or customs of war (torture, rape) and seven counts of crimes against humanity (torture, rape) was in fact a puny conclusion to the war in Bosnia where thousands of women were raped during the process of ethnic cleansing.2 Rape is still being committed with impunity in internal conflicts in Darfur, the Congo, and Colombia.
