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...hear accounts from the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina without sensing that the conflict there has taken the matter of rape in war down into deeper, more sinister dimensions. It is not known how many rapes have been committed since the fighting began in the breakup of Yugoslavia. A European Community team of investigators calculates that 20,000 Muslim women and girls have been raped by Serbs. Other estimates run much higher. The Bosnian government claims that as many as 50,000 Muslim women have been raped. Serbs are undoubtedly committing most of the rapes at the moment; they have also...
...part, they assume, the Serb objective is to use rape and enforced pregnancy as a form of revenge and humiliation. Says Mark Wheeler, a lecturer on modern Balkan affairs at the University of London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies: "The idea of nationality in the former Yugoslavia is based on descent, and the greatest debasement is to pollute a person's descent...
...part of war since men first threw rocks at each other -- or anyway since Rome was founded upon the rape of the Sabines. Joseph Stalin expressed a prevailing (male victor's) view of rape in war. When Yugoslav Milovan Djilas complained about the rapes that Russians had committed in Yugoslavia, Stalin replied, "Can't you understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?" In 1945, Soviet soldiers raped 2 million German women as a massive payback for everything the Nazis had done...
...crimes that took place in Yugoslavia were chilling," Ryan says. "What's terribly disheartening is that the same ones seem to be happening again in the same places, the same valleys...
...Bosnian Serbs hold 70% of the republic. An internationally sanctioned accord now would reward the Serbs, who make up only 31% of the Bosnian population, for their aggression. Milosevic would then be another de facto step closer to his dream of creating a Greater Serbia in the former Yugoslavia...