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Last broadcast on Sun, 1 Nov 2009, 23:05 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
One of the many charges faced by Radovan Karadžić at The Hague is that of organising the rape of 20,000 Bosnian Muslim women.
Fourteen years after the conflict, many of these women remain traumatised, cast out from their communities, rejected by their husbands and families, and often ending up stigmatised and impoverished.
Some had the additional humiliation of being raped in front of their parents or small children.
Yet the psychological support that so many of them urgently need is inadequate and sporadic.
Some women were kept for months and raped until they conceived.
Those who became pregnant either abandoned their babies or had them adopted.
Some decided to keep them, a constant reminder of their shame.
These children – now in their teens – are beginning to ask questions about their fathers.
The mothers now face a dilemma – should they tell the truth and risk damaging their child? Or keep their terrible secret?
Broadcasts
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Wed 28 Oct 200912:32
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Wed 28 Oct 200916:32
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Wed 28 Oct 200923:32
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Thu 29 Oct 200904:32
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Sat 31 Oct 200905:32
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Sat 31 Oct 200920:05
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Sun 1 Nov 200902:05
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Sun 1 Nov 200911:32
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Sun 1 Nov 200923:05
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