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14 sie 2023 · ‘Silence of Reason’, a documentary made by Kumjana Novakova that uses Hague Tribunal archive material to explore how women were subjected to brutal violence during the Bosnian war, has its...
Rape during the Bosnian War was a policy of mass systemic violence targeted against women. [1] While men from all ethnic groups committed rape, the vast majority of rapes were perpetrated by Bosnian Serb forces of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS) and Serb paramilitary units, who used rape as an instrument of terror and a key tactic [ 2 ...
8 lut 1993 · Bosnia War Crimes: 'The rapes went on day and night': Robert Fisk, in Mostar, gathers detailed evidence of the systematic sexual assaults on Muslim women by Serbian 'White Eagle' gunmen....
These and many subsequent conversations confirmed the first results of my research: in Bosnia-Herzegovina a war was being waged against women. Women have always been raped in wartime, of course. There were mass rapes in wars that were not wars of expulsion.
24 lis 2017 · Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic has been convicted of crimes committed during the 1990s Bosnian conflict, including mass rapes by his troops. The survivors of sexual violence from that time still endure mental and physical health problems today.
17 paź 2020 · A Bosnian court found a member of the Republika Srpska police force, Željko Lelek, guilty of crimes against humanity in Višegrad, including rape and sentenced him to sixteen years in prison.
1 wrz 2015 · The United Nations estimates that between 20,000 to 50,000 people, predominantly women, were raped during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the most extreme cases, special camps were established where women were forcibly held and systematically raped over the course of several months.
