By introducing this resolution. along with 62 of my colleagues. I in no way intend to minimize the numerous other atrocities that have come to light in the war in Bosnia and Hercegovina. The world community. including the Congress. has correctly denounced the socalled ethnic cleansing. the savage detention camps discovered last summer. the mass graves. and the unyielding siege of Sarajevo. all of which have caused an estimated 20.000 deaths and more than 1 million refugees. Nor is this resolution intended to suggest that the conflict in the former Yugoslavia is the first conflict in which women have been raped. Rather. this resolution is intended to clearly denounce rape as a means of warfare. to clearly state that rape has too often been considered an incidental or concomitant element of war in all countries rather than seen for the International crime that it is.
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