The Secretary-General's report (S/2010/604) on the implementation of resolutions 1820 (2008) and 1888 (2009) lists a series of acts that can only be described as atrocities committed against women in various conflict situations currently on the Council's agenda. It is hard to believe that such acts can be perpetrated as mere war tactics deliberately directed at civilian populations in an environment of complete insecurity, and therefore complete impunity.