In a study conducted by African Rights, women are described as culprits instead victims. It reprimands the fact that women have often plundered the corpse of murdered people and mentions that they have also taken part in the killings. This study has caused a lot of controversy. Rwandan women have complained that such a single report is emphasised yet does not analyse the extent of participation of women involved in the genocide or their reasons for participation. War crimes against women - a repressed offence Sex specific war crimes must be publicly designated as a crime.
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Legal revisions make processes possible in national courts. After fifteen years of silence they wanted not only an apology but also material compensation, arguing that their life has been totally destroyed by the suffering and pain from the experience. They can not regain the happiness lost in those years, but at least the later half of their lives should be protected. Governments have seldom voluntarily given lasting monetary compensation to rape victims. The Italian government, however, awarded pensions to women who were victims of mass rape committed by the French army in 1943.