Wartime Sexual Violence Archives

The court confirmed the seven-year prison sentence handed down to former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Milomir Davidovic for committing a crime against humanity by raping a woman in Foca in July 1992. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Friday upheld the verdict convicting Milomir Davidovic of raping a Bosniak woman in Foca during the war in July 1992 and sentencing him to seven years in prison.

‘Invisible Child’, a documentary intended to confront the enduring stigmas surrounding children born as a result of rape during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, premieres next week at the Sarajevo Film Festival. ‘Invisible Child’, a film directed by Muhammed Ibrahim Sisman that includes interviews with the daughters of women raped during the Bosnian war, […]

An exhibition in Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia aims to remind people of the stigma and discrimination that children born in the 1992-5 war as a result of rape, or who were fathered by foreigners, still face.

The court rejected former policeman Dragan Janjic’s appeal against his conviction for raping a woman at a police station in the Foca area of eastern Bosnia in 1992 and sentenced him to seven years in prison.

The Appeals Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has jailed Samir Kesmer and Mirsad Menzilovic for six years each for raping a minor in Sarajevo in 1993. The Appeals Chamber of the State Court in Bosnia has jailed two former former Bosnian Army members, following a retrial, for six years each, for raping a protected witness who was a minor at the time, in 1993.

Prosecutor Marijana Cobovic told the appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday that it had been proved during the retrial that Samir Kesmer and Mirsad Menzilovic raped an underage girl in Sarajevo in May 1993. “The injured party said at the main trial that she had been raped multiple times by the defendants,” Cobovic said.

Former policeman Dragan Janjic went on trial again for the rape of a woman in Miljevina near Foca in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992 after a previous verdict convicting him was quashed.

The Bosnian state court has confirmed an earlier verdict sentencing former Bosnian Serb soldier Milan Todovic to ten years in prison for raping and sexually enslaving a Bosniak woman in Foca in 1992 and 1993. The Appeals Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday confirmed the December 2018 verdict, which found former Bosnian Serb soldier Milan Todovic guilty of raping a Bosniak woman in the eastern Bosnian town of Foca during the 1992-5 war and holding her in sexual captivity.

A new photographic exhibition in Sarajevo presents images of ‘children of war’ who were born as a result of rape or were children of foreign peacekeepers or aid workers in the 1992-95 conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In closing statements at the trial of former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Nenad Perovic for sexual assault and aiding a rapist in the Rogatica area in 1992, the prosecution said the victims’ testimonies proved he was guilty.

Wartime Sexual Violence

Bosnia Upholds Serb Ex-Soldier’s Wartime Rape Conviction

Film to Premiere About Children of Bosnian War Rape Victims

Forgotten Children of Bosnian War Remembered in Srebrenica

Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman Jailed for Wartime Rape

Former Bosnian Army Soldiers Jailed for Raping Minor

Court Urged to Convict Bosnian Army Ex-Soldiers of Rape

Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman Retried for Wartime Rape

Bosnian Court Confirms Ex-Soldier’s Sexual Slavery Conviction

Bosnian ‘War Children’ Exhibition Tackles Enduring Stigma of Conflict

Bosnian Court Urged to Convict Serb Ex-Soldier of Sex Crimes

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