My understanding is that with the indictment, the ICC is making a statement about its use as a weapon of war, so that remains to be judged and evaluated.
Current participation in public gatherings around women's rights, around denouncing the use of rape, have been punished. While it's not an outright war, it is used as a form of punishment for those who speak out against the regime, and when we talk about rape and sexual violence being used as a weapon of war or as a weapon of repression, that's what we're talking about. It's a way to humiliate those who speak out, to humiliate both the women who are raped and have to live with the consequences of that socially, physically, and mentally and to humiliate the men who were not able to protect the women of their families.
Using rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war encompasses many different aspects. It has to do with women being seen as the property of men and as the spoils of war. What you do to women is what you do to.... You burn down houses; you rape women. Women being property is an element that supports the use of rape.
There are also other things, such as forced pregnancies, which provoke abortions. It's une représaille, a punishment, for having participated, for having been in the wrong area, for having been a woman.