The militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Boko Haram reported use of rape and sexual violence as a war strategy. This was revealed by the UN's annual report released on Monday (13/04/2015) The UN offices.
Quoted by AFP, 2014 referred to as the United Nations (years) which is characterized by a variety of events rape, sexual slavery, and forced marriages performed extremist group, which is part of the terror, as revealed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in the report.
The report explains, sexual assault that occurred in Iraq, Syria, and Nigeria is not the case as an incident. "It has nothing to do integrally with the purpose, ideology, and strategic funding of extremist groups," the report said.
Rape and other forms of sexual violence was used for recruitment purposes, terrorize the population, replacing certain communities, even getting funds through for sex trafficking or slavery.
ISIS and Boko Haram is an example of militant groups who use the strategy. Both joined the 13 extremists who use these means.
The report was released to commemorate the kidnapping of 200 girls in Chibok, the northern region of Nigeria, by Boko Haram. The incident referred to the United Nations as "the most wary episodes throughout 2014".
"Forced marriages, slavery, as well as the 'transaction' on women and girls who were abducted a major part of mode and Boko Haram's ideology ," the UN statement said.
As in Iraq, the siege of the city of Mosul by ISIS causing many women into sexual slavery, especially from the minority Yazidi. Besides sold, the girls there also is used as a gift to the militants.
In a period of a few months, the UN estimates that about 1,500 civilians were forced to become sex slaves in Iraq.
The report also says that there was a significant increase over the number of sexual violence in Syria. Some women who are victims also called kidnapped from Iraq's then taken to Syria, in territory controlled by ISIS.
The report covers 19 countries. Besides that happened in Nigeria, Iraq, and Syria, sexual violence was noted to occur Congo, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Central Africa.
UN Security Committee will seek a solution to this problem in a public debate that will take place this week.
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