Talk:Sexual violence in the Russian invasion of Ukraine/Archive 4

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Biased

Not that i know that certainly Ukrainian soldiers have committed war rape, but it is excluded without any text about whether they did. Also, it has been written in a very subjective way. Also, only the voice of the ukrainian government has been said, which makes it unreliable because ukraine is a belligerent of the war. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 14:48, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment. There's currently a discussion on the neutrality of this article at Neutral point of view Noticeboard: you can add your views here. Gitz (talk) (contribs) 16:58, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

That's not what "biased" means. Volunteer Marek 18:21, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose: There is no evidence that rape as a tool of war or terror is being used by Ukrainian forces; there is overwhelming evidence that Russian forces are using rape as a tool of war or terror. Crimes committed by military personnel are different from using rape as a tool of war. I think this is an attempt to create an twisted moral equivalency between the actions of Russian forces and Ukrainian forces.  // Timothy :: talk  17:30, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

  So yesterday you checked the sources carefully @TimothyBlue. Do you still believe that there is "overwhelming evidence that Russian forces are using rape as a tool of war or terror"? Do you think that the lead is justified per MOS:LEAD or is it just bad SYNTH and OR? The only independent reliable source on "rape as a weapon of war" is the October interview of Pramila Patten, UN Special Rapporteur. On "mass rape" there is more, but no conclusive evidence, just opinions by non-independent parties. Note that the source you restored [1] is not reporting "testimony about mass rape" [2] but a (quite unlikely) intercepted conversation circulated by the Ukrainian secret service. Gitz (talk) (contribs) 14:02, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

This is simply false, there is more than adequate sourcing in the section Reports and statements and throughout the article. Volunteer Marek 15:29, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

That's my point. Not that i think ukraine is doing it, but this article seems like it is only saying what russia is doing. Thehistorianisaac (talk) 06:59, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Sunday Times on two castrations

This article has developed a lot since last time I checked, so I'm not quite sure where this should go. Feel free to use <ref name="SundayTimes_she_thought_unshockable">{{cite Q|Q119707348|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref> as a direct claim by The Sunday Times of Russian forces' castration of two Ukrainian soldiers during the ongoing invasion. This is not just a video circulating on online social networks - it's direct testimony in a WP:RS and The Sunday Times emphasizes the claim in its title. The archive.today version is un-paywalled.

This doesn't qualify under Sources related to mass rape and rape as a weapon of war or military strategy, which itself is on the verge of WP:OR, since as far as I know, under international humanitarian law (IHL), rape as a weapon of war is a war crime, it's not an instrument of military strategy, and rape as ... military strategy is a misunderstanding of the law: rape cannot be a military strategy, it can only be a war crime strategy (in the wide sense of war crime/crime against humanity/genocide). Removing "or military strategy" would fix this.

The issue of how to use this source remains open. "... The Russians told them, 'We are doing this so you can't have kids.' To me this is genocide. Yatsenko sees the castrations as an element of genocide. To include this in the general list would require changing to something like Sources related to mass rape, rape as a weapon of war or rape as genocide. Boud (talk) 23:30, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Maybe not as a "weapon of war", but this is a sourced allegation. Here is some info about author [3]. It seems to appear in "Times" [4], not just "Sunday Times", and it was debated in other sources, such as [5], [6],[7]. My very best wishes (talk) 16:53, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

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