A senior police chief has said that people have the right to use Twitter and Facebook without being subjected to harassment and abuse, as he challenged social media companies to crack down on rape threats and other offences committed using their services.
This means that the statistics which show an increase in the use of weapons may relate to rapes committed by those men whom women should have been safest with.
Other Bosniaks were forced out of Potočari that day through the use of terror, including individual murders and rapes committed by Bosnian Serb forces.
For those gang rapes committed by military perpetrators, the high prevalence of gang rape suggests that sexual violence may be used as a method of male bonding and may be offered to combatants as a reward for bravery or victory.
Local aid workers and UN reports tell of gang rapes, leaving victims with appalling physical and psychological injuries; rapes committed in front of families or whole communities; male relatives forced at gunpoint to rape their own daughters, mothers or sisters; women used as sex slaves forced to eat excrement or the flesh of murdered relatives.
The figure of reported rapes in 2005 was 12,000 - thought to be around 15% of actual rapes committed.
Section 375 of India's Penal Code defines rape as a crime, with the exception of a rape committed by a man against his wife.
The man is facing five counts of assault, four counts of rape, and one count each of attempted rape, deprivation of liberty, torture, sexual assault, assault with intent to commit rape, and robbery using personal violence.
Historically, the most common approach on university campuses, due in large part to structural practicalities, has been to present coeducational audiences with correct information about rape (e.g., most rapes are committed by male acquaintances, undermining rape myths such as that women 'provoke' rape if they wear revealing clothes, etc).
According to Rape Crisis, around 90 per cent of rapes are committed by people known to the victim, often current or former partners.
These graphics perpetuate the myth that most rapes are committed by men of color on white women -- a myth historically used to keep men of color "in their place".
