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By 2011, it had indicted 161 people from all ethnic backgrounds for war crimes, [78] and heard evidence from over 4,000 witnesses. [79] In 1993, the ICTY defined rape as a crime against humanity, and also defined rape, sexual slavery, and sexual violence as international crimes which constitute torture and genocide. [80]
Calling the Ghosts: A Story about Rape, War and Women is a 1997 documentary film that details the experience of Nusreta Sivac and Jadranka Cigelj at the Bosnian Serb-run Omarska camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War. [1]
Grbavica is a 2006 film by Jasmila Žbanić about a single mother and her daughter in post-war Sarajevo. The film explores the impact of systematic rapes of Bosniak women by Serbian soldiers during the Bosnian War and the challenges of reconciliation.
Learn about the 1995 genocide of Bosniak Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the Bosnian War. Find out the background, causes, events, consequences and legal implications of the worst crime in Europe since World War II.
Learn about the history, culture, and challenges of women in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society. Find out how women participated in the war, politics, economy, and society after the Bosnian War (1992-1995).
Vilina Vlas was a rape camp active during the Bosnian War.It served as one of the main detention facilities where Bosniak civilian prisoners were beaten, tortured and murdered and women were raped by prison guards during the Višegrad massacres in the Bosnian War of the 1990s.
Nusreta Sivac (born 18 February 1951) is a Bosnian activist for victims of rape and other war crimes and a former judge. During the Bosnian War she was an inmate at the Bosnian Serb-run Omarska camp in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina where she and other women at the camp were raped, beaten, and tortured.
The Bosnian genocide (Bosnian: Bosanski genocid / Босански геноцид) took place during the Bosnian War of 1992–1995 [8] and included both the Srebrenica massacre and the wider crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing campaign perpetrated throughout areas controlled by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS). [9]