“Wartime
is exceptional in that atrocities by soldiers against civilians are
always essentially state acts. But men do in war what they do in
peace. When it comes to women, at least to civilian casualties, the
complacency that surrounds peacetime extends to war, however the laws
read. And the more a conflict can be framed as within a state,
as a civil war, as social, as domestic, the less human rights are
recognized as being violated. In other words, the closer a fight
comes to home, the more 'feminized' the victims become no matter
their gender, and the less likely international human rights will be
found to be violated, no matter what was done.” Catharine A.
MacKinnon, ''Crimes of War, Crimes of Peace,' Are Women Human?:
And Other International Dialogues, Belknap Press of Harvard UP,
2006, p. 148.
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