A growing number of accusations that Russian soldiers are raping the youngest and most vulnerable war victims is the latest disturbing twist in a modern war defined by archaic brutality
The dead boy is among dozens of alleged child rape victims which include two 10-year-old boys, triplets aged 9, a 2-year-old girl raped by two Russian soldiers, and a 9-month-old baby who was penetrated with a candlestick in front of its mother, according toUkraine’s main Psychological Assistance Line reports receiving calls regarding widespread rape—of children, women and men—every single day.
Rape has long been a weapon of war, but it is generally perpetrated against women and girls. In Syria, human rights groups say women and girls were raped with the goal of impregnating them to add an extra insult to the injury. “I have received reports, not yet verified... about sexual violence cases [involving] men and boys in Ukraine,” Pramila Patten, United Nations special representative on sexual violence in conflict, told a press conference in Kyiv this week.
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