A massive forced abortion program on the victims of rape by Islamic insurgents has been carried out by the Nigerian military on at least 10,000 women since 2013, according to a report published by Reuters.

The report’s findings offer further evidence of the use of rape as a weapon of war carried out by Islamist insurgents on Nigerian civilians.

7 Division, the Nigerian military force in charge of countering the insurgents, has been forcing chemical and surgical abortions on tens of thousands of women who have been raped by Islamist insurgents such as Boko Haram and the Islamic State-West Africa Province (ISWAP), a self-proclaimed regional “caliphate” of ISIS.

Soldiers told Reuters that the reason for the program was that the unborn children are believed to be “predestined” to be insurgents like their fathers, necessitating that the government “destroy (these) insurgent fighters before they could be born.”

Reuters verified that the Nigerian military has beaten and coerced women, some as young as 12, into abortions in the most unsanitary conditions.