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13 Crim. L.F. 507 (2002)
War Crimes against Women

handle is hein.journals/crimlfm13 and id is 507 raw text is: ANKE BIEHLER* WAR CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN Reviewing: Kelly Dawn Askin, War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals, The Hague: Kluwer Law International 1997, 455 pp. For centuries rape as a part of war was so commonplace that no special attention was necessary. This changed when systematic mass rapes in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the early 1990s became known. Public shock about their brutality, and about violations of international humanitarian law in general, contributed to the establishment of the International Crim- inal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia by the United Nations Security Council.1 It also drew the attention of many international lawyers and academics to the problem of women casualties of war.2 This is the context of Kelly Dawn Askin's book, meant to be the first volume of a two-part series about the prosecution of war crimes against women. It aims at providing an historical overview of the development of international humanitarian law in general, and an analysis of how the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes tribunals dealt with gender specific war crimes.3 The second volume of the book, which will address the prosecu- tion of gender crimes by the Yugoslav and Rwandan war crimes tribunals, is - according to the publisher - not expected to appear before mid- 2003.4 However, war crimes against women in the territory of the former * Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg i. Br., Germany; Ass. Jur. (2000), doctoral student. 1 UN Doc. S/RES/827 (1993). 2 See for example Christine Chinkin, Rape and Sexual Abuse of Women in International Law, 5 EUR. J. INT'L L. 341 (1994); Theodor Meron, Rape as a Crime under Interna- tional Humanitarian Law, 87 AM. J. INT'L L. 424 (1993); Maria Papaconstinou, Rape as a Crime under International Humanitarian Law, 51 REVUE HELLENIQUE DU DROIT INTERNATIONAL 477 ( 1998). 3 The terms sexual assault crimes, gender crimes and sex crimes seem to be used synonymously in the book and are interchangeable in this review. 4 Page xiii; KELLY DAWN ASKIN & PATRICIA VISEUR-SELLERS, II WAR CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN: PROSECUTION OF GENDER CRIMES IN THE YUGOSLAV AND RWANDAN WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS (forthcoming). LA Criminal Law Forum 13: 507-513, 2002. O © 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.

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