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RAPE AS A WEAPON OF WAR

An article by Kevin Sieff earlier this month in The Washington Post about the victims of Boko Haram’s rape camps in northern Nigeria has once again shed light on a topic all too often swept under the rug by the international media and by society in general. In his article, Sieff discusses how, on the heels of sound victories by Nigerian troops that have forced the radical Islamist terrorist organization from areas that it had claimed as part of its international caliphate, many women and girls have been liberated from their Boko Haram rapist captors, only to return home to a continuing nightmare of stigma, ostracism and distrust in which they remain prisoners of their horrific destiny. So-called "Boko Haram wives" and children The women about whom he writes were part of a systematic policy by which the caliphate has sought to disarticulate the societies that it invades through the kidnapping of women and girls en masse and forcing them into “marriage” (sexual slave