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The results confirm the widespread use of sexual violence against civilians – including males – since war broke out in the area in the mid-1990s. Nearly 40 percent of women and more than 23 percent of men surveyed reported having suffered sexual assault, mostly rape.
This study was the first to ask survivors about the gender of their attacker – 41 percent of female and 10 percent of male survivors of conflict-related sexual violence said the perpetrator was a woman.
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