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Roger Wicker: “Rape as a weapon of policy is completely--has always been completely unacceptable.”

On the recordMay 12, 2009
Rape as a weapon of policy is completely--has always been completely unacceptable.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

Editor's note · Context

Condemning the use of rape in conflict as a policy.

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