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sonz
12-25-2005, 11:39 AM
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"Even on Christmas day," Nadia said, "eight Serbs came, saying "Now we
celebrate." All eight gang-raped Nadia that day
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The Serbs are using three kinds of attacks on women and children in
their strategy of genocide:

First, they are mutilating sexually by criminally assaulting small
girls, and even infants. Physicians for Peace, a worldwide operation,
has documented cases of Serbs raping 3-year-old girls.

I interviewed one 56-year-old Bosnian woman named Marta. She wore a
dark maroon dress. She had a spirit about her, despite all her
travail. She had cried so profusely over the past months that the
area around her eyes had gone past the color of red -- all around her
sockets was the color purple. She was held in a concentration camp
with 150 women and children. She said she was raped, that they all
were raped. But here I am talking about the mutilation of small
girls, and Marta testified:

"I saw Serbs raping children -- girls as young as six and eight years
old." She said she and others could do nothing. If a woman objected
too strenuously, she said, "they slit your throat."

I talked with a young and beautiful woman, a Bosnian from Sarajevo.
Her first name is Aida. She is blonde, slender, about 30. As she
talked, I wrote her words:

"A physician who is a friend of my father came to my father's house
one evening extremely distressed -- crying, screaming, wailing. He
had treated an eight-year-old girl after she had been gang-raped by
Serbians. She was torn apart inside. She was bleeding so badly he
couldn't stop it. She was in great pain and could not be repaired.
He told my father he had injected her and killed her to relieve her
suffering."

In a refugee camp, I listened to a Bosnian Muslim, Issa, 39. He told
me the Serbs had attacked his village. They shot more than 200
civilian men and rounded up others, including Issa, and carted them
off to a concentration camp. I wrote his words:

"A doctor from my same town was a prisoner here. One day the Serbian
guards called for this doctor. They wanted him to sew up a 10-year-
old girl they had raped. She was torn apart. Seeing the mutilated
child, the doctor forgot he was a prisoner, that he was in a
concentration camp. He cursed the Serbs, telling them, 'You are not
human!'" According to Issa, the guards then left the child bleeding
on the table and assaulted the doctor. Issa said that when he again
saw the doctor, "he was barely alive."

In addition to the mutilation of small girls, the Serbs have a second
method of using women as a weapon of genocide. They keep women
separated from their husbands or their potential husbands. They do
this by holding the men in concentration camps or by killing them.
And, meanwhile, the Serbs hold in captivity women they repeatedly
assault sexually. They are forcing the women to give birth to what
they term "little Chetniks" -- or Serbian soldiers.

Ziba, 26, who with other women was held in a Gracko rape camp, said
Serbs shouted at Muslim women with small children: "Look at how many
children you can have. You are going to have our children. You are
going to have our little Chetniks." She added, "the rapes went on day
and night."

I can never forget the pained look in the large, dark eyes of a young
woman I will call Nadia. She is 20, petite, standing perhaps five-
feet-one. She is Muslim by religion -- most of the rape victims are.
When I talked with her, in a refugee camp, I was with a Bosnian woman
physician named Amra, who acted as interpreter. Nadia was seated by a
window and it was a bitter cold day.

"Aren't you cold?" Amra asked.

"How could I feel anything so unimportant as that?" Nadia replied.
She was reliving her nightmare.

When the Serbs assaulted her village, she and others ran to the hills.
Among them were three 12- and 13-year-old boys. The Serbs found the
group.

"Before my eyes," Nadia says, the Serbs began shooting the boys.
"Don't kill them!" Nadia shouted, running to defend them. A Serb
knocked her unconscious. When she awakened, she was in a room with
one of her arms tied to a bedpost. She was in a rape camp.

"I was kept in that room for three months. It was mostly walls. It
had a concrete floor. And straw on the concrete. Other women and
children were there. None of us were permitted to leave the room."

"Even on Christmas day," Nadia said, "eight Serbs came, saying "Now we
celebrate." All eight gang-raped Nadia that day.

Listen to a woman, a trained nurse, who was arrested and put in a rape
camp.

"I was one of 1,800 women kept as prisoners in Brocko. There were 600
women in my room. I was given a number -- 31. When they called your
number, you had to go. One woman told me she was gang-raped by 50
Serbs.

Such stories repeat. They are too numerous not to show a pattern.

There is a third means by which the Serbs are using the female body as
a battlefield. The European Community investigation in the large
number of Bosnian women raped reported: "Rape is a part of a pattern
of abuse, usually perpetrated with the conscious intention of
demoralizing and terrorizing communities, driving them from their
homes and demonstrating the power of the invading forces." It is a
means to demoralize, to weaken -- those men as well as the women --
who are still alive.

I talked with 60-year-old women who had been raped. They said they
had been held in concentration camps, and that those women who had
been well off, such as owners of small shops, and women professionals,
such as nurses, doctors, lawyers and teachers, were treated the worst.

Susan Woodward, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and an
expert on what used to be Yugoslavia, said in an interview with
_Washington Post_ columnist Judy Mann that the Serbs deliberately
sought to destroy those who are succeeding as urban professionals.
The Serbs have transformed them from professional success stories into
traumatized victims of rapes and other atrocities -- women who sit in
refugee camps, uprooted from their homes, their possessions, their
families.

"Women are always raped in every war. That's not new," Woodward said.
"But here it is not only rape, but in the name of ethnic cleansing
they are being raped and being forced to become pregnant with the
specific goal of forcing them to bear children of another ethnic
group. You are attempting to destroy the honor of the Bosnian Muslim
population."

I talked with Judy Darnell, a registered nurse from Marlton, New
Jersey, who has made five trips to the ravaged land to aid Bosnian
victims of atrocities. She told of Serbs repeatedly raping on 82-
year-old woman. As for women held in rape camps, "They are either
holding these women to keep the Muslim population in Bosnia from
reproducing or they are killing them."

How many women have been raped?

A while back a European Commission of Inquiry headed by Dame Anne
Warburton made a study in the former Yugoslavia and reported that
20,000 women had been raped. _New York Times_ correspondent John
Burns puts the number at 50,000. Michigan law professor Catharine A.
MacKinnon, who is representing Bosnian victims pro bono, puts the
total at "more than 50,000" women and girls raped, and another 100,000
women and children killed.

An estimated 1,000 to 2,000 women are now pregnant as a result of
rapes. From 300 to 500 have had babies by Serbs who raped them. The
Bosnian woman physician, Amra, said none of the Bosnian women raped by
Serbs wanted to keep the babies.

It's not been easy for Bosnian Muslim women to speak of being raped.
Nadia, the 20-year-old mentioned earlier, had a plaintive note to her
voice when she confessed, "I'm struggling to forget. And I'm
struggling to tell the story -- so others will know."

Most of the world knows now. Undeniably, in their quest for a
"Greater Serbia," the Serbs have made women their battlefield.
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