{"id":165603,"date":"2023-06-11T23:29:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T04:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/gang-rape-and-genital-electrocution-how-russias-war-crimes-in-ukraine-could-go-un-prosecuted"},"modified":"2023-06-11T23:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T04:29:40","slug":"gang-rape-and-genital-electrocution-how-russias-war-crimes-in-ukraine-could-go-un-prosecuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/gang-rape-and-genital-electrocution-how-russias-war-crimes-in-ukraine-could-go-un-prosecuted","title":{"rendered":"Gang-rape and genital electrocution: How Russia\u2019s war crimes in Ukraine could go un-prosecuted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XRD2xGW2Hb4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One month into living under Russian occupation in northern Ukraine, Marina cycled cautiously through her village. She was five doors from her elderly parents\u2019 blue garden gate when three soldiers ordered her to stop. Grabbing her hair, they dragged Marina into a neighbour\u2019s empty house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey forced me to strip naked,\u201d the 47-year-old said, picking at the skin around her fingernails. \u201cI asked them not to touch me, but they said: \u2018Your Ukrainian soldiers are killing us\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marina paused, wiped her tears and tried to steady her shaking hands. \u201cThey were shooting their guns inches away from my head so I couldn\u2019t move or run,\u201d she said. \u201cThen they started raping me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weeks after a Ukrainian town is liberated, its civilians are visited by sexual violence prosecutors and asked an indirect question: \u201cDid the Russians behave?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The answers have been harrowing; men\u2019s genitals have been electrocuted, women forced to parade naked, and children as young as four orally raped.<\/p>\n<p>The use of rape in war has existed for as long as there has been conflict. It\u2019s used to terrorise and degrade a community, and has been committed in 17 ongoing conflicts around the world. Yet although it is deemed a war crime under international law, it mostly remains undisclosed and hidden under layers of stigma and fear.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/gang-rape-and-genital-electrocution-how-russias-war-crimes-in-ukraine-could-go-un-prosecuted\">Continue reading \u201cGang-rape and genital electrocution: How Russia\u2019s war crimes in Ukraine could go un-prosecuted\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One month into living under Russian occupation in northern Ukraine, Marina cycled cautiously through her village. She was five doors from her elderly parents\u2019 blue garden gate when three soldiers ordered her to stop. Grabbing her hair, they dragged Marina into a neighbour\u2019s empty house. \u201cThey forced me to strip naked,\u201d the 47-year-old said, picking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}