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Amnesty Official Says Women Targeted in War

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From Times Wire Reports

Women are raped and sexually tortured during war because they are viewed as “the reproductive machinery of the enemy” and the embodiment of a community’s honor, the head of Amnesty International said.

They are harmed in dozens of conflicts in such countries as Iraq, Afghanistan, Nepal, Colombia and Sudan, Irene Khan, secretary-general of the world’s largest human rights group, said in London.

“It becomes a military strategy: If you attack women you attack the morale of the enemy,” she said.

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