No More Ethnic War: Rather Gender and Violence Based War

Abstract

War always portrays a detrimental phenomenon to show one’s superiority. Existing world respects those who are powerhouse and ignores those who lack strength. Sometime war is merely fought to preserve self respect and honour, and sometime it is merely fought for lustful gains. Phrases and purposes of war are innumerable and extensive. Women and infant are most vulnerable section of society who bears the disgrace of war. Men are slaughtered, leaving behind a widow and impoverished children. But trajectory of battlefield has been tremendously lowered in modern warfare. War strategies have been exceeded its ethnic boundaries, resulting in immoral treatment of enemies. Modern warfare includes rape as an instrument of genocide, with devastating effects. It is used as a threat to displace Villagers, to inflict fear and terror into communities and to punish the ‘enemy’. It is used to humiliate, destabilize and destroy certain populations while also providing sexual services for soldiers and reinforcing the hatred of the enemy. This paper presents findings itself as a doctrinal research on unethical strategies of modern warfare. Plagued by destitution, political instability and bloody confrontations among rival armed groups, modern war strategies endures violence based and unethical conduct. Human rights violations against women and girls, included killing, rape and other sexual violence, sexual slavery, slave labour, abduction, assault, amputation, forced pregnancy, disembowelment of pregnant women, torture, trafficking, mutilation, theft and the destruction of property. Violence based strategies includes rape as weapon of war or mass scale genocide of women individuality. Research paper also includes some of the incident which reflects use of gender based violence to take under advantage in war. How Yugoslavian media demonstrated rape as a means to earn political sympathy through raising national sentiments of Serbian ethnic groups; rather than attack on individual womanhood. Whereas same Yugoslavian government used to refer mass rape of Bosnian Muslim female as ‘Ethnic Cleansing’. In another such incident, a mother was shocked to find 10 month baby being raped by paramilitary in Congo. Sometimes sexual violence may also be systematic, carried out by fighting forces for the explicit purpose of destabilizing populations and destroying bonds within communities and families. While the violence in Darfur is a human rights atrocity for all Darfurians, the situation on the ground is especially dangerous for women because the Janjaweed militiamen are employing rape and other acts of sexual violence as systematic weapons of genocide and ethnic cleansing. Gender based violence also exists in the war affected area in the form of rape, human trafficking , slavery and Sexual violence based method of modern war or genocide leaves behind many atrocities such as psychological impact of rape and sexual violence on women as well as society. Paper also investigates the action taken by United Nations Funds for development of women. It also suggests futuristic strategies which would deal with gender based violence as weapon of war. Security Council in 2008 demanded for action against those powers that uses sexual violence as tactics in war.