A new UN report found that women in Ukraine experience systematic sexual violence by Russian troops. Women as old as 83 have been raped while their
  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
    39·
    1 year ago

    Jesus. How is torture and rape as widespread and prominent as it is in this war? This is not normal.

    What does this say about Russian people that such a high percentage of their armed forces are so perverted, sadistic and vile?

      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
        18·
        1 year ago

        It might just be the last 150 years that humans have tried to sanitize war but the behavior of Russia is notably awful even by medieval standards.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
          81·
          1 year ago

          Historically war basically consisted of everyone getting together in a big field and having a large fight. People who lived all of half a mile away could just get on with their lives as long as they didn’t go near the war field.

    • lol3droflxp@kbin.social
      191·
      1 year ago

      It’s something that happens when you give people weapons and let them loose in another country knowing there is little oversight or consequences. Just allows the bad guys to finally do what they want. The “regular people” contain an underestimated amount of assholes.

    • Astroturfed@lemmy.world
      61·
      1 year ago

      Russia has always used state sponsored terror tactics and humanities violations. Just go read up on the way they treated people in their way to Berlin in WW2. It’s horrifying. Raping children to death in front of their families is just standard operating procedure for the Russian army and that never stopped being true.

      Now, they’ve used another time honored Russian strategy. They emptied the prisons/gulags to flesh out their front line. Which just feeds into the depravity of the troops who are well known for this kind of behavior already.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
      106·
      1 year ago

      It’s normal for war situations. The kind of people who become soldiers are almost always open for raping other people when given the chance. If you read about other wars, rape is always very common.

      They are programmed into believing that the other country is evil, so that justifies their actions in their own minds.

      Soldiers are lost souls.

  • fruitleatherpostcard@lemm.eeEnglish
    131·
    1 year ago

    Not an excuse but the Russian population has been brutalised for a few hundred years and they are culturally warped in a manner known clinically as “Fucked in the head”.

    • ClumZy@sh.itjust.works
      23·
      1 year ago

      A traumatized dog is a dangerous dog and has to be put down. I’m glad to see that the Ukraine army is doing as such.

      Once the war is over, every Russian man that took part in it must be neutralised, it’s the only way. Rapists, and those that allow such atrocities, do not deserve to live and must die for the good of others.

  • DessertStorms@kbin.social
    1012·
    1 year ago

    How the fuck is their age relevant?

    Does the person who wrote this think old women generally don’t get raped?
    Or that the rape of an old woman is somehow worse than that of a young one?

    “Russian troops raped women while their families were forced to listen” gets the same story across, sensationalising victims’ details for clicks is gross.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
      272·
      1 year ago

      It’s to portray Russian soldier as people who doesn’t even respect 80 year olds. Similar to when someone kills an 80 year old to steal a bag when all they have to do is take it. The killing is completely unnecessary and shows cruelty. And same thing here, the article is designed to show how cruel Russian soldiers are who doesnt even leave 80 year olds alone.

      That’s my interpretation.

      Otherwise yes, of course young women are raped much more then 80 year old wimen. That’s why it’s considered extra cruel, and that’s why they are pointing it out.

    • snooggums@kbin.social
      172·
      1 year ago

      It reinforces that the rapes are done for the terror factor of victims beyond those that are raped and not because the soldiers are horny or whatever other stupid excuse.

    • Astroturfed@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      I think almost any crime against the elderly or children is generally viewed as worse, with good reason. They’re generally more helpless and less able to fight back/run away.

    • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
      21·
      1 year ago

      I also find that odd. It makes it almost seem as if raping elderly women is something that requires extra mention. So that nobody assumes that we are talking about the “normal”, “understandable” rape of younger women. It’s seriously fucked up.