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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 83 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck that's depressing

Reminds of a quote about rape during war time from a writer ... I think it was Vonnegut but I forget

"There are two types of women in war .... those that were raped ... and those that will be raped"

Of all the supposed civilization and modernization that we claim to uphold as a species ... the fact that this is still part of our world means that we are no more civilized then we were a thousand years ago, we just have computers, fast cars and nuclear weapons.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago

Holy fucking shit that's grim

[–] BMTea@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Take stories like this with a huge grain of salt until they're verified by credible international organizations. This genre of story specifically is a classic wartime propaganda tale with not much precedent for being true.

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 18 points 2 weeks ago

Wild headline, I can't even imagine the horror of living in a country like that.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

A couple of years ago, I watched a documentary about the war in Bosnia and how many women conceived as a result of those rapes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIBf48PP9hI