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Sexual Violence as Torture (Pohlman, 2017)

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Pohlman (2017), lead investigator on sexual crimes for the IPT 1965, argues rape and sexualised torture in 1965-70 detention were crimes against humanity, summarising fifty-eight case files (72% female victims, 85% naming soldiers or military police). Legal framing of sexual torture.

Pohlman (2017), penyelidik utama kejahatan seksual untuk IPT 1965, berargumen pemerkosaan dan penyiksaan seksual dalam penahanan 1965-70 adalah kejahatan terhadap kemanusiaan, merangkum lima puluh delapan berkas kasus (72% korban perempuan, 85% menyebut tentara atau polisi militer). Kerangka hukum penyiksaan seksual.

People

Annie Pohlman

Organisations

International People's Tribunal 1965National Commission on Violence against WomenLontar FoundationIndonesian Institute of Social History

Places

The HagueIndonesia

Events

International People's Tribunal 1965

Topics

memory, testimony and justicearrests and detentionkillings 1965–66theory and method

Tags

impunitysexual violenceprisonstorture

Details

Date
2017
Creator
Pohlman
Document type
journal article (journal article (open access))
Language
English
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Period
1999–present
Access
Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
Citation (APA)
Pohlman, A. (2017). Sexual violence as torture: Crimes against humanity during the 1965–66 killings in Indonesia. Journal of Genocide Research, 19(4), 574–593. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2017.1393949
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Pohlman (2017) - Sexual Violence as Torture.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.952) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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