Soldiers are trained to maximize aggression on the battlefield, to despise and exploit weakness, to dehumanize their enemies and to bond with and rely upon their male colleagues to the exclusion of others(Lilly, 2007).
Sexual violence is explained as a combination of biological drives for sexual release with the innate stresses and chaos experienced during and after combat.
The sexual violence is more so used during the war or time of conflict. Systematic mass rape devastates individual women and destroys the fabric of families and communities.
_Rape is often committed if a woman or a member of her family is
suspected of political activity that is in-congruent with that of the
state or opposing group. Rape and torture are ways of "punishing actual
or alleged deeds attributed to women or members of their family". In reports where women survived their attacks they shared that they were raped in transition to one place to another or they were taken to a specific "rape camp".
modus operandi -' buddy' gang rapes
In 1998, the Serbian police and military punished Bosnian women whose family members were supporters of the Kosovo Liberation Army. At this time they were either raped on the sight or they were captured and brought to "rape camps" which is where they were held as sex slaves for days a a time(Milillo, 2006) .
_"You destroy communities. You punish the men, and you punish the women, doing it in front of the men." - Maj Gen Patrick Cammaert