BBC News – Sexual violence in war: Jolie opens summit in London.

War is terrible. War is awful. Terrible things happen. Unimaginable things take place. The truth of it is that when young men are given a low life expectancy, and a gun, they will feel as if they can do what they want. The threat of further action being taken for the things that they do during war, will not be in their minds.
They are taught by their leaders that they are dealing with an ENEMY. Leaders like William Hague.
An ENEMY must be defeated.
Property of that ENEMY are part of the spoils of war. It can be treated without respect. It can be abused.
What better way to hurt your ENEMY than to damage his possessions?
In some cultures women are the possessions of men.
Rape is not done by people who necessarily want sex. They want to show how powerful they are.

The best way of stopping sexual violence in war is to stop war. All other attempts will fail.
It would be great to take killing out of war too.
According to William Hague – Rape… wrong! Killing… OK! This is what we will be telling our soldiers.

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