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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Jessop

Unsilenced at the Imperial War Museum: 'in war, rape is cheaper than a Kalashnikov bullet'

On the third floor of the Imperial War Museum, a quiet revolution is taking place.

Taunting posters of half-naked women cover the walls. Cigarette cases stand on plinths, where once they were traded to local girls for sex. Pages and pages of testimony accompany them, telling the story of how those girls – and many like them – were raped, across a century or more of war.

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