Report on war crimes during 90s is released; witnesses, Amnesty International comment

Описание: (31 Oct 2012)
Liplje, eastern Bosnia
1. Wide of village
2. Mid of house and road leading to village
3. Wide of heart shaped memorial for killed women from Liplje
4. Close of inscription on the memorial showing names of the killed
5. Close of inscription, reading: (Bosnian) "Camp of Death Liplje - At this place on May 25th 1992, many lives of our raped mothers and sisters were ended, by the hand of Chetniks. 400 inhabitants were tortured here."
6. Wide of house destroyed in the war
7. Wide of Mersad Salihovic, camp survivor, opening gate leading to the memorial
8. Mid of Salihovic standing in front of the memorial for raped and killed women
9. SOUNDBITE: (Bosnian) Mersad Salihovic, villager, survivor of the camp Liplje:
"These women went through horrible trauma. There were also children there, aged four to twelve. Girls and women who really suffered a terrible ordeal. I think that they (Republika Srpska) should make it up to these women somehow. For what they have been through. At least for them, the women, they should get some reparation as they were raped and their husbands were killed."
10. Pan down of names of the killed women
11. Wide of memorial
Rome, Italy
12. Wide of Riccardo Noury walking to his desk and sitting down
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Riccardo Noury, Amnesty International Communications Director:
"Tens of thousands of women were victims of rape, other forms of sexual violence, torture, they were reduced to sexual slavery between '92 and '95 in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The vast majority of these crimes have gone unpunished."
14. Mid of Noury working at his desk
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Riccardo Noury, Amnesty International Communications Director:
"In both the two entities of the Bosnia-Herzegovina, women that survived rape are voiceless. They are alone, without any kind of psychological help from the state, they are just helped by private organisations, non-governmental organisations."
16. Close of Noury's hands
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Riccardo Noury, Amnesty International Communications Director:
"No one has the convenience to... do justice for women. They simply don't, they don't matter to the authorities. And this is a shame, this is a shame because women were the first target among the civilian population of massacres committed by whole parties between '92 and '95 in Bosnia. But this is sure: women were the group that suffered most."
18. Wide of Noury at his desk
STORYLINE:
The human rights organisation Amnesty international released on Wednesday a report on war crimes in the 1990s committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The report "When everyone is silent: Reparation for survivors of wartime rape in Republika Srpska" gives a snapshot of the situation in the Serbian part of Bosnia and Herzegovina with regard to women survivors of war-time rape today.
"In the Republika Srpska, the true extent of sexual violence during the conflict has never been fully acknowledged by the authorities or society more broadly. Survivors are not recognised in law and their needs are not being met in practice," Amnesty International stated on their official website.
The Amnesty International report was welcomed in eastern Bosnian village of Liplje, where a heart-shaped black memorial stands as a reminder of 120 Muslims killed by Serbian forces in May of 1992.
Among them were 40 women who were raped and killed by the Serbian paramilitary forces lead by Vojislav Seselj.
One of the eye witnesses of the killings from Liplje, Mersad Salihovic, said that those who raped and killed those women must be finally punished.


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