Sentence examples for commit sexual atrocities from inspiring English sources

GOVERNMENT officials, aid workers and activists from dozens of countries converged on London this week to discuss ways to solve a horrible problem: the tendency of combatants in war and civil strife to commit sexual atrocities.

Anyone out there who even thinks of committing sexual atrocities like these needs to look over their shoulder and keep looking over their shoulder.

The numerous stories of sexual atrocities committed against women were not prevalent in the conversations or presentations, although duly acknowledged by the government and prosecuted through the "gacaca" restorative justice following the genocide.

Innumerable sexual atrocities were committed against Sinhala women during two Sinhala youth insurrections in the south of the island and there are reports of soldiers beating and/or sexually abusing their wives, their lovers and sex workers during rest and recreation leave.

Pramila Patten, special envoy of the U.N. Secretary-General on sexual violence in conflict, who interviewed survivors in Bangladesh in November, said: "I heard the most heart-breaking and horrific accounts of sexual atrocities reportedly committed in cold blood out of a lethal hatred of these people solely on the basis of their ethnicity and religion".

The innate human ability to disconnect morally has made it hard for researchers to find an association between people's stated convictions and their behavior: preachers can commit sexual crimes; prostitutes may live otherwise exemplary lives; well-trained soldiers can commit atrocities.

"It's sexual atrocities, it's torture.

The leftist guerrillas also committed atrocities, including sexual enslavement of women and kidnappings of civilians.

Motive to commit such atrocities poses a more difficult challenge.

I wondered how intelligent people could commit such atrocities.

I would rather surrender, than commit such atrocities".