A powerful kick in the guts.
The first frame of the film reads '1996 - Balkans'. By that time the 'Dayton Agreement' had been signed, yet Slobodan Milosevic, the president of Socialist Republic of Serbia (Serbia, current) and Ratko Mladic (commander-in-chief of the Army of Republika Srpska) continued the ethnic cleansing by setting up 'sex camps' for the Serbian Army where twenty to fifty thousands of Bosniak (Bosnian Muslims) women were systematically raped to intimidate, humiliate and produce a generation of Serbs, all with a political agenda.
"The women knew the rapes would begin when 'Mar na Drinu' was played over the loudspeaker of the main mosque. 'Mar na Drinu,' or 'March on the Drina', is reportedly a former Chetnik fighting song that was banned during the Tito years.
"While 'Mar na Drinu' was playing, the women were ordered to strip and soldiers entered the homes taking the ones they wanted. The age of women taken ranged from 12 to 60. Frequently the soldiers would seek out mother and daughter combinations. Many of the women were severely beaten during the rapes." - Seventh Report on War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia: Part II, US submission of information to the United Nations Security Council.
This is a story of one such sex camp.
What I learned from Sarajevo was to stop complaining about anything.
What I took from the film is that it takes one tough cookie to absorb it all in and then explode with a vengeance in the enemy's face.
The first frame of the film reads '1996 - Balkans'. By that time the 'Dayton Agreement' had been signed, yet Slobodan Milosevic, the president of Socialist Republic of Serbia (Serbia, current) and Ratko Mladic (commander-in-chief of the Army of Republika Srpska) continued the ethnic cleansing by setting up 'sex camps' for the Serbian Army where twenty to fifty thousands of Bosniak (Bosnian Muslims) women were systematically raped to intimidate, humiliate and produce a generation of Serbs, all with a political agenda.
"The women knew the rapes would begin when 'Mar na Drinu' was played over the loudspeaker of the main mosque. 'Mar na Drinu,' or 'March on the Drina', is reportedly a former Chetnik fighting song that was banned during the Tito years.
"While 'Mar na Drinu' was playing, the women were ordered to strip and soldiers entered the homes taking the ones they wanted. The age of women taken ranged from 12 to 60. Frequently the soldiers would seek out mother and daughter combinations. Many of the women were severely beaten during the rapes." - Seventh Report on War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia: Part II, US submission of information to the United Nations Security Council.
This is a story of one such sex camp.
What I learned from Sarajevo was to stop complaining about anything.
What I took from the film is that it takes one tough cookie to absorb it all in and then explode with a vengeance in the enemy's face.