Rape has been systematically used as a tactic of war by the military and government to take over one group's political, economic, religious or social position over another group's. In wars today rape and torture are weapons that are used one one tribe, nation, and region against women of another nation, country, etc.
Throughout our history we have seen this method used in war such as:
Bosnia
Rwanda
Present-day Iraq
Columbia
Sudan
HISTORY
_History of sexually victimizing atrocities, from those perpetrated
during the battles of Babylonia to the subjugation of Jewish women in
WWII. The first documented mass rapes occurred in Nazi Germany during
the riots of Kristallnacht in 1938(Milillo, 2006). During that same time the Japanese
earned notoriety for the "rape of Nanking" in 1937-1938 by the executing horrific mass rapes and abuse of Chinese women and forcing the women into sexual slavery.In the 21st century we saw the biggest use of this method in the country of Rwanda. In 1994, the Hutus across the country rose up against their neighbors the Tutsi to take over neighboring land.