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- Tens of thousands of Bosniak and Croat women, mostly Muslim but also Christian, suffered vicious torture and sexual abuse in what became known as "ethnic cleansing" by Bosnian Serb forces and their backers in neighboring Serbia.
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Nov 24, 2017 · The use of sexual violence was so widespread during the conflict that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, set up in 1993 to investigate allegations of atrocities, included rape as a crime against humanity. Today, more than two decades on, the survivors are still suffering.
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Oct 3, 2019 · October 3, 2019, 3:35 PM. Both men and women suffer the consequences of wars, but conflicts and humanitarian disasters around the world tend to disproportionately affect women and children....
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Jul 13, 2018 · In 1993 she was was named Journalist of the Year for her reporting from Bosnia. Fighting talk: the first dead body of the war fell at a wedding. In the year that has passed thousands of Bosnians...
