Wartime Female Slavery: Enslavement>

This article discusses wartime female slavery. It looks at three incidents of wartime female slavery: crimes committed against comfort women by the Japanese military during WWII, wartime female slavery endured by Bosnian females in the Foca region, and crimes committed by soldiers in Sierra Leone against women who were abducted, raped, and forced into conjugal relations. The article looked at how the issue of the comfort women was treated by international courts and tribunals after the end of WWII and how this has created precedent for later instances of female enslavement.  The article states that the Tokyo Tribunal’s failure to condemn the subjugation of comfort women under either humanitarian law or international criminal law was a significant legal error. The article also looks as misperceptions of wartime slavery that had resulted from the post WWII failure of addressing and clearly defining female enslavement in all of its forms.