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War Crimes 4 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes

Atrocities committed in wars abroad that follow the perpetrators and survivors to New York.

Season 1 · Episode 1
Payback

Aired September 20, 1999 · Murder / revenge killing

A New York cab driver is stabbed and castrated, and the detectives discover he was a Serb war-crimes suspect living under a false name, which puts his former victims under suspicion.
Season 10 · Episode 17
Hell

Aired March 31, 2009 · Attempted murder; child rape

A girl rescued from a Ugandan rebel army is attacked in New York, and the case pits SVU against a hidden warlord and a deportation order for the former child soldier who loves her like a sister.
Season 11 · Episode 16
Witness

Aired March 17, 2010 · Rape

A rape case hinges on a neighbor who stopped the attack, a Congolese survivor of wartime sexual violence who fears that testifying will get her deported.
Season 13 · Episode 12
Official Story

Aired January 18, 2012 · Kidnapping and assault / gang rape cover-up

A vigilante father’s assault on a military contractor’s CEO leads SVU and a new executive ADA to the gang rape of the man’s daughter in Iraq and the company’s cover-up.

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