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Weapon of War: Sexual Violence Against Men
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Weapon of War: Sexual Violence Against Men

52 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Sexual violence against men in conflict is one of war's most silenced weapons, and this DW documentary sends survivors from Bosnia, Ukraine, and Congo to describe what happened to them and what came after. Zihnija Bašić recounts his long fight to be officially recognized as a war victim after being raped during the Bosnian War, decades before the ICTY in The Hague heard the first such cases. In Ukraine, Oleksiy Sivak and Roman Shapovalenko, both abused by Russian occupying forces, have built a self-help group for other men. Masokolo Lemba, who fled Congo's war for Uganda, describes how survivors there risk being prosecuted under anti-homosexuality laws simply for reporting their abuse. Historian Regina Mühlhäuser, part of an international research group on wartime sexual violence, argues that prisons and militaries function as breeding grounds for this violence even in peacetime. Interviews are direct and unflinching, letting the men's own words carry the weight of a subject most survivors never discuss publicly.