Genocidal rape is the action of a group which has carried out acts of mass rape and gang rapes, against its enemy during wartime as part of a genocidal campaign. During the second Sino-Japanese war, the Holocaust, Bangladesh Liberation War, the Yugoslav Wars, the Rwandan genocide, the Congolese conflicts, the Iraqi Civil War, South Sudanese Civil War, the Rohingya genocide, and the Uyghur genocide, the mass rapes that had been an integral part of those conflicts brought the concept of genocidal rape to international prominence. Although war rape has been a recurrent feature in conflicts throughout human history, it has usually been looked upon as a by-product of conflict, and not an integral part of military policy.