21.   Claims of mass rapes, along with widespread attacks against Indonesian Chinese and their property, have outraged Chinese communities around the globe.

22.   Currently an inquiry is being held into allegations that mass rapes were committed during rioting in May.

23.   Ethnic Albanians fleeing Kosovo have accused Serbs of mass rape.

24.   However, Alawiah and military chiefs have said they had failed to find evidence of mass rapes.

25.   In addition, several members of the northern alliance are accused of massacres and mass rapes during their fight against the Taliban.

26.   In recent years, world alarm has been galvanised by mass rapes and brutalisation of women in seven different countries.

27.   International observers say all sides in the Bosnian conflict used systematic mass rape.

28.   Irwanto explained that mass rapes and sexual torture of women in times of crisis were nothing new.

29.   Mass rapes by Japanese soldiers in Nanking and other Chinese cities during the war had stirred anti-Japanese sentiment.

30.   Participants were asked how they could heal the open wounds left by mass rapes or other atrocities used as tools of war by all sides.