in this context even rape transcending its semantic meaning and using the body as a means to exert ritualistically the most traumatic and symbolic violence has taken a new and even more frightening role becoming a specific weapon of the most atrocious crimes including genocide a crime too often left unpunished these are to launch a new international protocol with international standards for documenting and investigating sexual violence in conflict areas to take practical steps to prevent the event of this atrocious crime to support the victims and the survivors and last but not least trying to produce a copernican revolution in the universe of war and violence changing once and for all the hideous attitude to apply sexual violence as a lethal arm