The Guardian view on Jean-Pierre Bemba: no impunity for wartime rape | Editorial

The international criminal court has handed an 18-year prison sentence to a Congolese warlord for widespread rapes committed by his soldiersRape has been used as a weapon of war in many parts of the world and throughout history – it is being used in Syria today, and it was used in Bosnia during the 1990s Balkans war. In Africa, rape and sexual enslavement have festered in innumerable conflicts. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, such crimes have been committed on a massive scale. Rape no