There was a campaign of ethnic cleansing in the area of the town of Foča committed by Serb military, police, and paramilitary forces on Bosniak civilians from 7 April 1992 to January 1994 during the B
Chart showing exhumations carried out between 1996 and 2000 in the Foča municipality, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Image provided courtesy of the ICTY)
"Karaman's House", a location where women were tortured and raped near Foča (Photograph provided courtesy of the ICTY)
Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during an armed conflict, war, or military occupation. This type of violence is often committed as spoils of w
Foča ethnic cleansing
…the war. Among them were 1,513 Bosniak civilians and 155 Serb civilians. Additionally, Bosnian Serb authorities set up locations, commonly described as rape camps, in which hundreds of women were raped. Numerous Serb officers, soldiers and other participants in the Foča massacres were accused and convicted of war…
Monument to the Condottiero Giovanni dalle Bande Nere depicting a man kidnapping a woman (Piazza San Lorenzo, Florence)
De jure belli ac pacis, title page from the first edition of 1625.
Some of the delegates to the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict held in 2014
Christians before Saladin: many civilian inhabitants of Jerusalem were sold into sexual slavery after the Siege of Jerusalem (1187).