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My guess is that the threat of it no longer has any beneficial impact for the attacker. Therefore, it is not used in many places as a tool of war.
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It's more useful in civil war and other low intensity conflicts. It is a rather serious crime for American servicemen, which is why we don't hear too much about it on our part. During the Russian Civil War, the accusation of rape was enough to get you executed in the Red Army, but during WWII, rape was a weapon of terror and revenge used by the Red Army in German territories.
There was a lot of rape in Vietnam, but our military has become far more professional since. Our proxies, however, are under no such constrictions. Our Contra Army in Nicaragua, for example, engaged in rape as a weapon of terror.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Much like rape in civilian life, I can probably guarantee that it's happened. It just goes unreported. Do not forget, Iraqi society is very much a shame culture. For an Iraqi woman to come forward to accuse an American soldier means certain disownership by her family, with only a slight benefit of justice being granted. And the latter is hardly guaranteed.Visit The Frontier for all your geopolitical, historical, sci-fi, and fantasy forum gaming needs.Comment
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Muslim women reporting of being raped in muslim countries are often killed by their own family membersI will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
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I should have thought of the whole honour angle.Originally posted by Datajack Franit
Muslim women reporting of being raped in muslim countries are often killed by their own family membersWhy can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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The days of free love at gun point are going.Comment
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I feel so importantDatajack for the jackpot
I feel so importantI should have thought of the whole honour angle
I was already in a good mood after finding a pair of jeans that make my butt look so good. But it´s improvingI will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
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Disownership?Originally posted by DerSchwarzfalke
Much like rape in civilian life, I can probably guarantee that it's happened. It just goes unreported. Do not forget, Iraqi society is very much a shame culture. For an Iraqi woman to come forward to accuse an American soldier means certain disownership by her family, with only a slight benefit of justice being granted. And the latter is hardly guaranteed.
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Perhaps the US Army is not the vehicle of the devil after all.
No, that can't be it. Lets just assume that they are doing it anyways without evidence, like most atrocities commited by the US Army.
EDIT: That is in response to MOBIUS"The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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No it's because everyone else does it, but Americans are better people than that and we should never believe anything bad has happened.
Seems to me everyone has different opinion about this and everyone is wrong. Rapes happen. Period. In this conflict, there are no serial work and ordered organized raping, more like individual cases that are always there, but that's no reason to make a big buzz.In da butt.
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There is not even evidence of that, which is why the thread was started. But OBVIOUSLY it MUST be going on, so lets just assume it.Rapes happen. Period. In this conflict, there are no serial work and ordered organized raping, more like individual cases that are always there, but that's no reason to make a big buzz.
"The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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