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Women are not only the victims of wartime sexual violence, but can also be the perpetrators. A study done by Dara Kay Cohen found evidence in interviews with former combatants of female fighters committing gang rape against both men and women during conflict in Sierra Leone. Likewise, data from a study from the Journal of the America Medical Association found that in the Democratic Republic of the Congo women committed 41.1% of the total sexual violence against women, and 10% of the total sexual violence against men. Laura Sjoberg states that the perpetration of wartime sexual violence by women “contradicts the dominant narrative about what a woman is generally and about women’s capacity for violence specifically.”