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- From: schissel%math.cornell.edu@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (Eric Schissel)
- Subject: Rape and death camps in x-YU
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 15:43:59 EST
- From: Dan Barriball <DBARRIBA@ucs.indiana.EDU>
- Subject: Atrocities against women in Bosnia-please post
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- From: PO1::"femecon-l@bucknell.edu" 10-DEC-1992 18:18:10.41
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- Dear network members:
- I am forwarding a message from a Croatian women's group called "Tresnjevko".
- They are documenting the sexual and other atrocities committed against women
- and children during the genocide being committed against Bosnian Muslims an
- Croatians (by the Serbs actively and by the rest of the world passively).
- They are calling for an end to these war crimes and are asking support from
- all international groups and women's groups. I am forwarding their report
- and appeal for support and I am also asking for your suggestions about what
- we can do as a group and as individuals. I am also asking you to forward this
- message to other organizations and individuals. I thought we could write a
- petition and send it to the president bush and president-elect clinton, to
- the u.n. secretary general, and write to "tresnjevko" to express and offer
- our support and contact other women's groups like NOW. Please send your
- suggestions. Thank you.
-
- nilufer cagatay
- dept. of econ., univ. of utah
- cagatay@econ.sbs.utah.edu
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- Women's group "Tresnjevika". Mlinarska 71. 41000 Zagreb, Croatia
- Tel: 38 41 50 35 31
- Zagreb, September 28, 1992
- REPORT
- The Women's Group "Tresnjevka" addresses the issue of the protection of
- women and children, victims and refugees of the war against the
- countries of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina.
-
- The stream of survivor testimonies which we came across, together with
- the work of other organisations throughout Croatia and information
- gathered in refugee camps throughout Europe, prompted our investigation
- into the systematic sexual atrocities being committed against women in
- the context of the Serbian and Montenegrin occupations of Croatia and
- Bosnia-Hercegovina. We are in the second month of our research, which is
- bringing staggering and appalling results.
-
- At the time when the world was shocked by the media pictures of Nazi-
- style concentration camps on the occupied areas of Bosnia-Hercegovina,
- we were finding out about the existence of rape/death camps for women
- and children, mostly of reproductive ages, in occupied territories of
- both Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia. Very little is known about the fate
- of these women, and unfortunately the topic of sexual abuse is still
- treated as a secondary concern within the world organisations and the
- media which are investigating the war crimes that are occurring on these
- territories. RAPE/DEATH CAMPS
-
- The existence of rape/death camps must be understood as a strategy or
- tactic of genocide, of a "final solutions". Unlike rape camps which were
- set up during the wars in, for example, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Korea,
- the camps in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia are not solely sexual abuse
- centers but are a part of an organised system leading to liquidation,
- i.e. "ethnic cleansing" of those of Muslim and Croatian nationalities.
- Sexual abuses in this context have modern precedents only in Nazi
- Germany.
-
- The Serbian-Chetnik strategy of "final solution" has resulted in the
- establishment of over 100 concentration camps and forced exoduses of
- more than 1,500,000 non-Serbian refugees from Bosnia-Hercegovina. Over
- 120,000 people from all occupied parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina have been
- deported to concentration camps as a part of this Serbian-Chetnik
- genocidal operation.
-
- Three major groups of captives make up the population of those in
- concentration camps:
-
- 1. people of reputation and hose who are in positions of local power
-
- 2. important intellectuals
-
- 3. other less "threatening" civilians
- Captives of the first and second groups are condemned to liquidation
- because they represent the most educated and influential aspects of
- those ethnicities targeted for "ethnic cleansing"; genocide requires the
- destruction of the intellectual, cultural, and national identity of a
- people. Those who comprise the third group are primarily civilians from
- rural areas. Some of their names have been disclosed to international
- humanitarian organisations. This group also includes the largest number
- of women, most of whom have been forgotten.
-
- Thus far, not enough attention has been paid to the sufferings of
- women and children in this current war of occupation. The governments of
- Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina have presented them as individual and
- random cases (i.e. 150 women left in late pregnancy from gang-rape),
- which taken as a whole are not considered very significant.
-
- Women and children are the victims of grenades, snipers, the knives of
- Chetnik butchers, diseases, hunger, exhaustion from hiding in shelters
- and basements. They comprise almost 70% of the total number of killed
- people in the republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina. They are 75% of the known
- number of 120,000 captured people in concentration camps. Yet everyone
- remains silent about them. These figures attest to the fact that these
- are not sporadic cases but are a gender-specific onslaught that is
- systematic.
-
- Our sources indicate that there are over 35,000 women and children in
- Serbian-run rape/death camps, enduring the most frightful methods of
- terror and torture. Such tortures include rapes, gang-rapes, forced
- incest, the draining of the blood of captives to provide blood for
- transfusions for the needs of the criminals, setting children ablaze,
- and drowning babies. These are only a part of the daily death crimes.
-
- Females between the ages of 10 and 30 years of age are the primary
- objects of daily gang-rapes. They are raped daily by between 40 and 50
- Chetniks. The females suffer from venereal diseases, internal injuries,
- starvation, and other forms of humiliation based on both gender and
- ethnicity.
-
- The Women's Group "Tresnjevka" demands that the concentration camps be
- shut down immediately. This also means that we demand that women's
- rights to sexual and reproductive control be upheld absolutely and
- without compromise both in this present situation and in all
- circumstances. To this end of condemning and halting the war crimes, we
- appeal to all international organisations and to all women's groups and
- initiatives to assist us.
-
- Women's groups "Tresnjevka"
-
- Zagreb, Croatia*
-
- Vice President. Nina Kadic* This appeal and research is being done in
- conjunction with women's organisations in Bosnia-Hercegovina, of which
- Nina Kadic is coordinator. Address: Office of the Government of Bosnia-
- Hercegovina in Croatia, Savska St., 41000 Zagreb, Croatia.
-
- Women's group "Tresnjevika". Mlinarska 71. 41000 Zagreb, Croatia
-
- Tel: 38 41 50 35 31
-
- Zagreb, September 28, 1992
-
- A LIST OF RAPE/DEATH CAMPS IN BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA
-
- 1. Motel "Vilina Vias", Visegrad. This camp was established at the end
- of April 1992. The number of women captives is not known, but we suspect
- that it is very high since the areas surrounding the camp have been
- rendered almost completely "ethnically clean".
-
- 2. Hotel "Galeb", Brcko County.
-
- 3. Restaurant "Vestialia", Brcko County.
-
- 4. Brezovo Polje, Brcko County.
-
- 5. Hotel "Elvis", Brcko County. These four concentration camps were set
- up immediately after the Serbian occupation of Brcko. Their captives
- come mainly from east and west Bosnia. The rape/death camp of Brezovo
- Polje has been moved to the school centre in Bijeljina County.
-
- 6. Trnopoije, near Prijedor. Survivors testify about the establishment
- of a number of smaller local residences for the purposes of sexually
- abusing females.
-
- 7. Secondary School Center, Bijeljina County.
-
- 8. Peikovici Village, Bijeljina County.
-
- 9. Mrakovica Mountain, on the way from Prijedor to Bosanska Dubica. The
- female population from the Croatian and Muslim villages on the slopes of
- the Kozara Mountain are prisoners in this rape/death camp. This camp was
- established at the beginning of 1992 since part of Bosnia-Hercegovina
- has been under occupation for over a year. The number of captives is not
- known.
-
- 10. Lakiasi, Baja Luka County. There is a rape/death camp for girls and
- women up to 24 years of age.
-
- 11. Teslic, near Prijedor. This is the main center for the ultrafascist
- Serbian military forces from Western Bosnia. This camp of over 1000
- women and children is located in the woods, 20 km. from Teslic.
- Survivors testify that girls of 10 years of age were also raped. Twelve
- (12) women who managed to escape the camp are now in advanced stages of
- pregnancy, and are awaiting birth in Zagreb hospitals.
-
- 12. Ripac, near Bihac. At the beginning of May 1992, Serbian forces
- massacred the Muslim and Croatia populations of this area. Some
- survivors fled to Bihac and Cazin. Some were taken to this camp for
- Croatian and Muslim Inmates.
-
- 13. Lomnica, near Sekovici, Tuzla County. This is a rape/death camp in
- which over 200 girls up to 15 years of age have been enduring sexual
- atrocities for several months now.
-
- 14. Jesenica, near Bosanska Krupa. This rape/death camp was established
- in May 1992. Its captives are from Bosanska Krupa, Cazin and from
- surrounding regions.
-
- 15. Kamen-Grad, Sanski Most County.
-
- 16. Duboki Potok on Kozara Mountain, near Mostanice Monastery. We have
- no information about when this camp was founded, but women from Banja
- Luka and its surrounding villages have been held captive there for over
- a year. There is no specific age group, but the largest number is of
- reproductive age.
-
- Vice President. Nina Kadic
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