Acknowledging the Suffering of Victims of Sexual Violence in Iraq: The Iraqi High Tribunal and Crimes Against Women
Ranharter, Katherine; Stansfield, Gareth
Date: 2016
Journal
Middle Eastern Studies
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
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Abstract
Violence, and the threat of violence, in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was a pernicious
and pervasive element of everyday life, conditioning the behaviours and attitudes
of Iraqis of whatever class, ethnicity, or sect.1 The Ba’th regime was, in this
regard, relatively constant in its treatment across society’s many different ethnic
groupings, ...
Violence, and the threat of violence, in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was a pernicious
and pervasive element of everyday life, conditioning the behaviours and attitudes
of Iraqis of whatever class, ethnicity, or sect.1 The Ba’th regime was, in this
regard, relatively constant in its treatment across society’s many different ethnic
groupings, sectarian associations, tribal formations, and socio-economic strata.
Episodes of violence in Saddam’s Iraq have been well documented, by human
right’s observers during the period in which the Bacth regime ruled (1968-2003),
and since then as academics have sought to shed light on events that had taken
place in what had been one of the most authoritarian of states to have emerged
in the post-Second World War period.
Arab and Islamic Studies
College of Social Sciences and International Studies
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