Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Start: Topical Index: Types: Rape: Genocidal Rape: 20th Century:

Types: Rape:
GUKRUAHUNDI

I n f o r m a t i o n

»The Gukurahundi was a series of mass killings and genocide in Zimbabwe which were committed from 1983 until the Unity Accord in 1987. The name derives from a Shona language term which loosely translates to "the early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains".
During the Rhodesian Bush War, two rival nationalist parties, Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), had emerged to challenge Rhodesia's government. ZANU initially defined Gukurahundi as an ideological strategy aimed at carrying the war into major settlements and individual homesteads.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)


K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20th Century

II. Geographical Index: African History: Zimbabwean History

III. Topical Index: -


B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Cameron, Hazel. »The Matabeleland Massacres: Britain's wilful blindness.« The International History Review 40 (2018): 1-19.

[Info] Cameron, Hazel. »State-Organized Starvation: A Weapon of Extreme Mass Violence in Matabeleland South, 1984.« Genocide Studies International 12 (2018): 26-47.

[Info] Cameron, Hazel. »Operation Gukurahundi: A Policy of Genocidal Rape and Sexual Violence in Zimbabwe 1983-1984.« State Crime Journal 12 (2023): 1-31.

[Info] Dube, Liketso. »A metaphorical reading of the name Gukurahundi: The philosophy concept and memory.« African Identities (October 3, 2025).

[Info] Liptak, Paige. Weaponizing Sexual Violence: Variations Between Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Genocidal Rape. Master's Thesis, Wright State University, 2025.

II. Speaker Index

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