Our bodies are their battlefield. What war does to women

For more than thirty years, Christina Lamb has worked in combat and war zones. In her book, she gives voice to women and shows that in modern warfare, armies, terrorists and paramilitary groups use rape as a weapon of humiliation, oppression and ethnic cleansing.
Communicating directly with survivors, Lamb learns about the suffering and bravery of women in war and meets those who fight for justice. From Southeast Asia, where the Japanese enslaved "comfort women" during World War II, through the Rwandan genocide, where an estimated quarter of a million women were raped, to today's Yazidi women and children who witnessed the mass murder of their families before being captured by ISIS. Lamb also reveals incredible stories of heroism and resistance: Bosnian women who hunted down more than a hundred war criminals, an Aleppo beekeeper saving the Yazidis, and a Congolese doctor who risked his own life to treat more rape victims than anyone else.

Rape may be as old as war itself, but it is a preventable crime. Evidence does not guarantee that the attacks will not be repeated, but no one can pretend that the world simply did not know.

The edition contains the author's preface to the Ukrainian version. You can read it in full at Divoche.media.