Bosnian war rapes still an open wound, 15 years on
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SARAJEVO — Enisa Salcinovic knows a lot about sports. From basketball to rugby, she easily names top players and teams because watching matches is the only thing that does not trigger painful memories.
TV sports, six different daily pills and an exhausting job as a cleaning lady have become the 55-year-old widow’s mechanism for coping with her horrific 40-day ordeal of imprisonment, rape and torture during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.
The nightmare began in late June 1992 when a former colleague of Salcinovic’s husband Nusret started tormenting her after Nusret was taken prisoner by Serbs.
“The first time he forced me to have oral sex in front of my parents,” she said as she broke down in tears.
“After that he raped me every time he came, every time he was off work.”..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101102com6.html
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