Bosniak Woman Key to Classifying Rape Under International Law as a War Crime

Muslim Bosniak woman Nusreta Sivac is seen during the interview with The Associated Press in Sanski Most, 260 kms west of Sarajevo on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Sivac, a former judge, was one of thousands of women who were raped during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, as part of a systematic Bosnian Serb rape campaign. After the war, Sivac begun collecting testimonies of other rape victims with a view to making a UN war crimes court in The Hague recognize it as a war crime. Today, largely because of Sivac, people are regularly prosecuted for wartime sexual violence. According to the UN, between 20,000 to 50,000 Bosniak women were raped , many in special rape camps , during the war that was fought between the new country’s Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks. Photo by Amel Emric.

By AIDA CERKEZ (AP)

PRIJEDOR, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA — There were days when she prayed for a bullet to end her suffering. When she thought she was dying of a heart attack, she whispered “Thank you God.”

A young judge, Nusreta Sivac was one of 37 women raped by guards at a concentration camp in Bosnia. They never discussed the nightly traumas – their pained glances were enough to communicate their suffering. She also witnessed murder and torture by Bosnian Serb guards – and was forced to clean blood from walls and floors of the interrogation room.

She told herself to memorize the names and faces of the tormentors so that one day she might bring them to justice.

100-godišnjica Masakra i Nasilnog Pokrštavanja Bošnjaka Plava i Gusinja

Širom BiH klanjana dženaza-namaz u odusustvu Bošnjacima ubijenim u Plavu i Gusinju

1913. godine u Plavu i Gusinju ubijeno je 1.000 Bošnjaka, a nasilno je pokršteno njih preko 10.000.

U džamijama širom BiH klanjana je dženaza-namaz u odsustvu za oko hiljadu Bošnjaka koji su ubijeni 1913. godine u Plavu i Gusinju, nakon što su odbili da uđu sastav tadašnje Crne Gore, kojoj su nakon dodijeljeni u okviru Berlinskog kongresa 1878. godine, javio je novinar agencije Anadolija. Dženaza-namaz je klanjana nakon džume-namaza u džamijama širom Bosne i Hercegovine.

Podvale o Bosancima i Hercegovcima Vode Bošnjačku Naciju u Invalidska Kolica

MI NISMO BOSANCI I HERCEGOVCI, NEGO BOŠNJACI

SARAJEVO – Pripadnici bošnjačkog naroda, na predstojećem popisu stanovništva u BiH koji će biti održan od 1. do 15. oktobra ove godine, po etničkoj/nacionalnoj osnovi treba da se izjasne kao Bošnjaci, te da kao maternji jezik označe bosanski, poručio je predsjednik Skupštine Svjetskog bošnjačkog kongresa muftija Muamer Zukorlić, javio je novinar agencije Anadolija.

Zvornik: Četnici Kliještima Vadili Zube Ženama, Ubijali Djecu i Civile

Ratni zločini srbijanskih paravojnih formacija u Zvorniku

Genocidni zločini nad Bošnjacima 1992 godine u Zvorniku. (Foto: Amel Emrić, 25 maj 2008. Na slici, ekshumacija iz masovne grobnice Karakaj kraj Zvornika.)

Oni se terete u preciziranoj optužnici da su na mjestu zvanom “Hamzići” ubili trudnu ženu sa djetetom od dvije godine u naručju kao i da su “ubili sedmero djece starih dvije, četiri, pet, sedam, deset i dvoje po 13 godina”.

Optuženi se terete i da su silovali prije ubistva Zlatiju Ribić (13) kao i da su “dijete koje se nalazilo u redu za likvidaciju, a koje je tražilo svoju majku, odveli do jame, gađali nožem, pucali u njega i zatim ga bezdušno bacili na ubijena lica”. Žene su silovali više puta, a jednoj od njih su kliještima iz usta iščupali dva zlatna zuba.

SLABE PRESUDE ZA SVIREPE SRPSKE ZLOČINE U ZVORNIKU 1992 GODINE

(Napomena: Slično se desilo i 2010 godine sa ratnim zločincima Brankom Popovićem i Brankom Grujićem koji su za učestvovanje u mučenjima i ubistvima oko 700 Bošnjačkih civila — žena, djece i starijih u Zvorniku —  dobili po

Popis Stanovništva: Od Bošnjaka Zavisi Opstanak Bosne i Hercegovine

Bošnjački pokret za ravnopravnost naroda povodom propagande da se stanovnici BiH na Popisu stanovništva izjašnjavaju kao “Ostali”

TOKIĆ: POJEDINE NVO POKUŠAVAJU NA POPISU OSTVARITI ŠTO U AGRESIJI NA BIH NISU USPJELI MILOŠEVIĆ I TUĐMAN

Sejfudin Tokić

Sejfudin Tokić, predsjednik Bošnjačkog pokreta za ravnopravnost naroda, a povodom stavova manjeg broja nevladinih organizacija koja propagiraju da se stanovnici Bosne i Hercegovine na narednom popisu stanovništva u što većem broju izjasne kao “Ostali”, dao je slijedeću izjavu za javnost:

Za Bosnu i Hercegovinu i njene građane od presudnog je značaja stabilna država, a ona je u burnoj historiji uvijek bila direktno povezana sa brojnošću i organizovanošću bošnjačkog naroda.

Popis stanovništva u Bosni i Hercegovini u oktobru ove godine treba da da realnu sliku etničke strukture stanovništva na kojoj bi se mogao graditi

Siege of Sarajevo: The Longest Siege of a Capital City in the History of Modern Warfare

The Siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. The siege lasted from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 during the Bosnian Genocide. During the siege, Serb forces killed 11,541 residents, including over 1,500 children, while 56,000 residents were wounded, including nearly 15,000 children. See how 7 minutes of the siege looked like in the video below and you will gain better understanding how hard it was for the Bosniak population to survive the nearly 4-year-long Serbian terror.

101,040 Victims of Bosnian War (1992-95) Compiled in a Book

Roughly half the dead were civilians, while 82 percent of those were Bosnian Muslims (known as Bosniaks). Some 10,000 women were killed, again the majority Bosniaks. Of 24,000 Serb dead, 20,000 were soldiers.

Mirsad Tokaca, Research and Documentation Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Published last month, war crimes researchers say The Bosnian Book of the Dead represents the most comprehensive statistical analysis yet of the bloodshed in Bosnia after federal Yugoslavia fell apart at the close of the 20th century.

For Tokaca, 58, it’s the ultimate answer to political leaders across the countries carved from Yugoslavia who still dispute the crimes committed, the numbers killed and who bore the blame when their joint state collapsed.