RE-CONCEPTUALIZING WAR RAPE IN ROHINGYA CRISIS
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2020
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UMT.Lahore
Abstract
Gendered violence during conflict and war builds its legitimacy from pre-existing gender
relations and socio-cultural norms. Women are socialized to bear the duty of reproducing not just
the child, but also the ethnic, national, religious identity of the state. Thus rape of a woman
during a war is less about that woman and more so a symbolic conquest of the men who were
supposed to be her „protectors‟. (Diken and Laustsen, 2005) Despite the long standing history of
gender based violence, it remains a controversial subject for academics to examine.