Robin Morgan

The rape of Bosnian Muslim women in the early 1990s by Serbian soldiers was not an isolated case of rape being used in war, asserts Robin Morgan in the following viewpoint. Rape has been used as a weapon in war since the founding of Rome, she maintains. Morgan contends that invading armies use rape as a weapon to destroy a people’s culture, heritage, and ethnicity. In such cases, according to Morgan, rape is a political act of torture. Morgan is the international consulting editor and former editor in chief of Ms. magazine.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. How many women have been raped in the former Yugoslavia, according to the author?
2. What evidence does Morgan present to support her contention that the rape of Bosnian women is not an isolated...