Analysis Of Claudia Card's Rape As A Weapon Of War

From the reverberation of virtue and righteousness to the toils and tribulations of oppression and persecution, humanity gazes upon its hysteria and delirium and stands idly by as the world disintegrates upon their tattered feet. We have, as humans, have desensitized ourselves from the hysteria and value the triumph and victory that war entails. War and combat, whose ideologies persist with the very fabric of time itself and with this persistence is the resurgence and modification of weaponry. To formulate our concepts of war, we associate our ideas with machine guns, gas masks, and bombs, however, looming in the shadows of our history are these silent agents of destruction: human trafficking, sterilization, and rape. Rape: “The crime of using force or the threat of force to compel a person to submit to sexual intercourse.” (Rape, n.d.). No expression evokes a more vivid and poignant response, the physical affliction of such an occurrence falters in comparison to the psychological toil an individual must endure, throughout the chronicles of combat and warfare, these actions have inspired intimidation and terror in the hearts of the opposition. Philosopher, Claudia Card in her essay Rape as a Weapon of War

Professor Doris Buss in her article Rethinking “Rape as a Weapon of War” describes such an issue with the Rwandan War Tribunals reaction towards sexual violence, Buss in her texts states “The numbers tell the story. As of December 2008, the Tribunal has overseen the completed trials and guilty pleas of 48 men, only 15 of whom went to trial on charges including rape or sexual violence. Only five men in total have been found guilty of rape-related charges.” (Buss 2009,