Facts and Statistics Regarding War Crimes

 

   Rape

• A woman is raped approximately every 26 seconds in Africa.
• 1,738 South African men anonymously admitted to have raped someone.
• 3 out of 4 men admitted those women were under 20 years of age, while 1 out of 10 said the victims were under 10.
• 2.1% of women over the age of 16 in Africa admit to have been sexually abused at least once in their life.
• An estimated 40% of African women will be raped in their life time.
• While only 1 out of every 9 rapes will be reported, only 14% of rapists will be charged.

Child Soldiers

• Children are often used as spies before they become official "Soldiers".
• Quite often children in the military will be used as human shields, protecting the older, more experienced men.
• When young girls are recruited with promises to be able to fight, they're turned into sex slaves for the other Soldiers instead.
• Child soldiers are more subject to being terrorized.
• When the children are captured by other rebel groups, they sometimes get limbs amputated as some form of punishment.