Tag Archives: Rape as a Weapon of War

Serbian Forces Mass Raped Women to Boost Morale and Spread War Propaganda

“Actual rapes of Bosniak and Croatian women by Serbian soldiers, filmed as they happen, have been shown on the evening news in Banja Luka, a Serbian-occupied city in western Bosnia-Herzegovina. The women were presented as Serbian and as being raped … Continue reading

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Rape in Srebrenica: Surviving the Bosnian Genocide, Women of Srebrenica Speak

After the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995, Serb forces began separating men and women. Men and boys were systematically killed; women and girls were brutally raped. Excerpt from the book SURVIVING THE BOSNIAN GENOCIDE: THE WOMEN OF SREBRENICA SPEAK. Potocari … Continue reading

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Angelina Jolie: Serbs Deny Genocide in Bosnia

Bosnia in Angelina Jolie’s heart by Hajrudin Somun Who could believe that one of the most famous and beautiful stars of world cinema was capable of making one of the most impressive testimonies of the war in Bosnia! I certainly … Continue reading

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Činjenice: 50,000 Bošnjačkih Žena i Djevojčica Silovano od Strane Srba

Cinjenice: 50,000 Bosnjackih (muslimanskih) zena i djevojcica su bile sistematski silovane od strane pravoslavnih Srba tijekom Genocida nad Bosnjacima 1992-95. Prikazujemo neke od zrtava  brutalnog silovanja (u to vrijeme, neke su imale samo 12 godina): Pogledajte jos slika zrtava monstruoznog … Continue reading

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Facts: 50,000 Women and Girls Raped in Bosnia

Violence against women during conflict has reached epidemic proportions. Mass rape is frequently used systematically, as a weapon of war. During conflict women are physically and economically forced to become prostitutes, sometimes in order to secure the basic necessities for … Continue reading

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Jasko Gazdic Case: Bosniak Rape Victim Testifies in Court

BIRN — A protected State Prosecution witness testifies in absence of the public at the trial of Jasko Gazdic, who is charged with crimes committed in the Foca area. The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina accepted a proposal made by … Continue reading

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Karadzic: Bosnian Muslim Children Raped by Serbs

SENSE TRIBUNAL — Protected witness KDZ 051 described at the trial of Radovan Karadzic the ordeal of a parent whose seven-and-a-half year old daughter and 13-year old son were raped by the Serb forces in Rogatica in 1992. The witness, … Continue reading

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Nobel Laureates Campaign Against Rape

Short excerpt from Gloria Galloway’s report in The Globe and Mail — “Nobel laureates gather in Quebec to campaign against rape” — published on 24 May 2011: “In April of 1992, Bakira Hasecic was at home with her husband and … Continue reading

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Bosniak Woman Endured Series of Brutal Rapes by Serbian Captors

By John-Thor Dahlburg Times Staff Writer 30 March 2000. Her face was hidden by a screen, her voice scrambled electronically. Identified as Victim No. 50, she opened her private chamber of horrors Wednesday, telling the world how she and women … Continue reading

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Bosniak Teenage Girl Describes Rape by Serb Soldiers

By Roy Gutman 9 August 1992. Newsday Dressed in jungle fatigues and armed with knives and guns, the guards scoured the dark, crowded room with their flashlights, searching for girls to abduct for the night. Then one of them noticed … Continue reading

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Bosnian Women Seek Justice as War Crime Victims of Rape

Bosnian Women Seek Justice as War Crime Victims The Daily Union, p.7 26 February 1997. By David Bauder NEW YORK (AP) — After what they had been through, Jadranka Cigelj [Bosnian Croat woman] and Nusreta Sivac [Bosniak woman] weren’t about … Continue reading

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Truth of Bosnian Atrocity Can’t Be Denied

By Georgie Anne Geyer The Vindicator, p.A11 28 June 1994. “At least now, they can never say these things didn’t happen.” With those words, Dr. Cherif Bassiouni, the chairman of the U.N. commission investigating war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, … Continue reading

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Tadic Case: Bosniak Rape Victim Refuses to Testify

Witness Balks in War Crimes Trial The Post and Courier, p.12A 4 May 1996. THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — War crimes prosecutors have asked an international tribunal to drop a rape charge against a Bosnian Serb accused of murdering more … Continue reading

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Rape as a Weapon of War against Bosnian Muslim Women and Children

U.N. Commission says rape is a war crime Bangor Daily News 24 February 1993 GENEVA (AP) – Geraldine Ferraro, the U.S. delegate to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, and representatives from the 53-nation panel on Tuesday singled out rape by … Continue reading

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