The age of warfare that was fought between two armies on a clear plan of battle is over. For the past thirty years there has been a shift in the so-called “art of war”. Once thought to be innocent bystanders, civilians are now major targets during open conflict. Whether it is at the hands of terrorist attacks on civilian centers or rape and murder of a community, this fact cannot go unnoticed to the world. Condoleezza Rice said, “Civilians are no longer collateral damage, but are now the center of it (conflicts)”; and she was right in every aspect of the claim. Through the documentary War Redefined: Women, War, and Peace, the impact that women have during and after armed conflict is shown. Through War Redefined the world can learn how to deal
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It can no longer be taken as an inevitable byproduct of war. Women are often the ones who have to deal with the aftermath of war; usually they are held at the end of a gun and often they are victims. Thanks to women across the world this issue is now on the world stage. Unfortunately, that does not change the cases that have already happened. The use of rape as a weapon tore apart communities and families. Husbands have thrown out wives and divorced them due to the wives having been victims of rape. It is believed that in today’s society it is now more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier in armed conflict. This cannot be the case; the protection of the population should be paramount to the goals of any defending or invading …show more content…
It is as hard and as simple as to discuss or talk about it. Silence has been seen throughout our history. During World War II the Soviet Army raped countless German women, in Bosnia it was considered as an inevitable byproduct of war, Rwanda half a million Tutsi girls where raped due to their ethnic background. It happens everywhere, one of the most shocking statistics that War Redefined shared was in the rape capital of the world, Democratic Republic of the Congo, two million women have been raped. That is one rape every minute. All of this is due to forty years of neglect by the
It can no longer be taken as an inevitable byproduct of war. Women are often the ones who have to deal with the aftermath of war; usually they are held at the end of a gun and often they are victims. Thanks to women across the world this issue is now on the world stage. Unfortunately, that does not change the cases that have already happened. The use of rape as a weapon tore apart communities and families. Husbands have thrown out wives and divorced them due to the wives having been victims of rape. It is believed that in today’s society it is now more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier in armed conflict. This cannot be the case; the protection of the population should be paramount to the goals of any defending or invading …show more content…
It is as hard and as simple as to discuss or talk about it. Silence has been seen throughout our history. During World War II the Soviet Army raped countless German women, in Bosnia it was considered as an inevitable byproduct of war, Rwanda half a million Tutsi girls where raped due to their ethnic background. It happens everywhere, one of the most shocking statistics that War Redefined shared was in the rape capital of the world, Democratic Republic of the Congo, two million women have been raped. That is one rape every minute. All of this is due to forty years of neglect by the