Forced Marriage—an International Crime?

In Chapter 1, we saw that the evil of sexual violence in armed conflicts has all through the years—ancient and modern—been expressed through an apparent martial policy of serving women up as prizes or incentives to fighting men. The Book of Deuteronomy apparently permitted men to keep female war captives as slaves and concubines.¹ We saw that modern day soldiers have carried over these practices across the gulf of time, by perpetrating it themselves or by condoning it on the part of their comrades. We noted that Soviet soldiers attacking Germany were reportedly told that German women were