Book review.
www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/books/review/our-bodies-their-battlefields-christina-lamb.html?fbclid=IwAR1pYwrW3yzYaA2UdaN0jqFlWaiBPd6pycJxVls8lp4PjJd58HKo3mcY-b8
Judith Butler’s “rich fantasy”.
“The first prosecution of rape as a war crime occurred in 1998, at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, half a century after the Geneva Convention declared it such. The International Criminal Court has a sorrier record. Created in 2002, it has secured only one conviction for sexual slavery and rape, in the 2019 case of a Congolese warlord. (A previous conviction was overturned.) More than half of the 90 war criminals convicted by the tribunal for the former Yugoslavia were found guilty of sexual violence, but this, Lamb writes, is a “fraction considering the tribunal received reports of more than 20,000 rapes.”