October 14, 2022
22:50
The rape and sexual assault cases attributed to Russian forces in Ukraine are clearly part of a military strategy and deliberate tactic to dehumanize the victims, “said Pramila Patton, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict. , cited by BTA.
“There are all the signs,” she added when asked about the use of rape as a weapon in the conflict.
“When women and girls are isolated for days and raped, when boys and men begin to rape, when there are a number of cases of genital mutilation, when you hear testimonies of women talking about Russian soldiers stocked with Viagra, this is clearly a military strategy. And when the victims report what was said during the rapes, it becomes clear that it is an intentional tactic to dehumanize the victims “, stressed the representative of the United Nations.
Patton stressed that the data on the first cases of sexual violence appeared “three days after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine” on February 24 this year.
Patton has been the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict since 2017 and is currently in Paris to sign a partnership agreement with the NGO Libraries Without Borders to support victims of sexual violence in a time of conflict.
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