Sex slave: ‘Every day we were raped’

Published: July 22, 2008, 7:04 pm

Tags: news, bosnia, bosnian woman, muslim, radovan karadzic, rape, serb soldiers

I had to share this story with everyone. It is very sad. I found it on cnn.com. It was written by Rachel Clarke. The outbreak of war seemed like a joke to Jasmina, then just 19 years old. She dreamed of being an economist and says she played with her toddler son and baby daughter as if they were toys. But in April 1992, the Serb soldiers took over her city of Bijeljina, in northeast Bosnia near the border with Serbia, and began to kill, torture and terrorize the Muslims there in a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing. “Whole families were disappearing during the night. Sometimes we could see their bodies in the gardens, sometimes not even that,” Jasmina said. “The men from my family were beaten up the first day. … My mother just disappeared. I never found out what happened.” Paramilitaries loyal to Arkan, the Serbian ultranationalist later indicted for crimes against humanity, came to the home Jasmina shared with her husband and

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