Rape and the Sri Lankan War.

If you've read Homer, you'll know that the wrath of Achilles, around which The Iliad revolves, was because he'd been deprived of his war prize, a beautiful maiden named Chryseis. There's another story I remember, by Somerset Maugham, called The Unvanquished, that describes a French mother's determination to destroy the baby born to her by a German soldier who raped her, during World War 2. Literature reflects reality, and rape was widely practiced in war time from antiquity through the modern age. We've seen it in the Great Wars, the Indo-Bangladesh War, the Bosnian War and the Gulf War. Over 20000 Japanese women had also been taken sex slaves in the Second World War. The Sri Lanka government's deadly war with the Tamil Tigers, lasting a span of over two decades, was no exception, and it has been alleged that rape had been used a planned strategy to decimate the Tamil population in the northern and eastern fringes of the island.
Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State of the United States, commented that the SLA used rape as a war tactic, to which the government responded that Clinton had apparently forgotten the Monica Lewinsky affair and needed to clean up her own backyard. They denied the charge but did not state that Tamil women had not been raped by armed forces.
The general trend in the rapes perpetrated by the SLA were on women held in detention, and refugee shelters for Tamil civilians could well be described as rape camps. Often, the sexual violence was carried out on very young women, and there's one instance of a nine-year-old girl being molested by a gang of seven men. Grenades were sometimes dropped on the victims' abdomens to wipe out the crime. More often than not, families were witness to the crimes, and any reportage in such cases resulted in their being tortured and usually shot.

Here's the Amnesty International online petition for the cause of improving conditions in war ravaged Sri Lanka:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action/call-un-investigate-sri-lanka-rights-violations