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This week, we discuss the horror of an institutionalized continental network of systematic rape imposed by the Japanese armed forces. The victims of this rape are both women and girls, and each woman or girl can be raped several times per day. This runs parallel to an entire network of slavery of various groups of people that the leadership of imperial Japan has determined as inferior.
The horrific use of rape in war continues well into the 21st century and there are several conflict zones where this is currently unfolding. Rape also continues to be commonplace outside of conflict zones, and though women and children are clearly the primary victims, men are also raped.
You can begin learning more about rape as a war crime and weapon from these United Nations sources:
https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/rape-war-crime
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/RapeWeaponWar.aspx