They finally change the laws over to amy says our commute was full. But the symbolic event theres a body and im sad but i was 15 and in high school when i found a box with all the notes from the psychologists and therapists my mother went to see and they documented every detail of the rape what happened to her injuries and if i was alone at home and read it all of us and suddenly i didnt know who i was anymore my whole life just fell apart. This time. When we meet i know usage shes 25 and studying psychology in sarajevo her mother never wanted her to know that she was conceived by rape. Ever since her discovery. I know has felt like a living legacy of the war. Between 1900 to 1905 so every year what was ravaged by an ethnic conflict between Bosnian Muslims serbs and croats. The war was characterized by ethnic cleansing mass murder and systematic militarized great. No one knows how many women were sexually assaulted. Estimates range between 2050000. Up to 4000 children were born to the victims in bosnia theyre called the invisible children. For many the war is history but not for i know as a child of rape shes endured stigmatization and discrimination official bosnian documents require a fathers name as files the field is empty. Even now after more than 20 years whenever i go to the authorities i still have to tell some guy behind the counter that my mother was raped i dont know who my biological father is can i still apply for student aid got so. And you. I know has teamed up with others in the same situation their association forgotten children of war is fighting for an end to discrimination and for equal rights. They also want the government to recognise bosnias invisible children as war victims a status that grants certain types of assistance the demand has drawn abusive comments on their facebook page. Plus mushroom i could be close to. One person wrote on our mothers were prostitutes it wasnt our fault. But theyd sold their bodies for a little food i mean is there comments like that to be shocked me really. Should be. Many invisible children have never overcome their feelings of shame. Feelings i know as mother knows well she lives 200 kilometers from sarajevo. I know went through so much with me we were all alone. The hardest thing was when someone at work would ask me who and his father was well. We were like a leaf in the wind tossed every which way by the things happening around us. Until she was 7 i know lived with her mothers of you know in a woman safe house run by an Aid Organization sabina had a waitressing job in a cafe. That was where she met her husband. The mason took her and i know and they moved to his home village. But after the war hatred and distrust ran deep in bosnian society. It really wasnt easy here in the village. Just unthinkable the single man would marry a woman with a child. Poor memory one gossiped why doesnt he find himself another woman one without a child. It was divided into 2 months when no one apart from news read knew the story of your birth. But. I wanted to keep it a secret forever. When it became known that sabina had been raped by an enemy soldier and conceived i know the family faced open hostility. The hardest part was explaining she would all those abusive terms meant. She wanted to know the definition of bastard in all those words. I know a stepfather knows that served as a soldier in the war he longed for a happy family life but the usages were ostracized in the village and i know faced repeated verbal harassment. Rules for move through i have so many problems with people here they didnt know what to make of our situation it took a long time and there was such an unending amount of arguments before they finally accepted our family and i now i finally had someone i could take care of she gave my life meaning. A broader up center to school. For yourselves only schoolboys so they. I know the mother had already endured a horrific ordeal after being raped by a croatian soldier she went into denial. By the time she realized she was pregnant it was too late for an abortion. Money so he promised. Someone the other took i dont want to keep or i didnt even see or is a human being on the city of internet i just waited to get the birth over with to be finally rid of this thing inside me because im a dog long after she was born i didnt pick her up for 3 months didnt change a single day. Sometimes i still wonder if it would have been better to give her up for adoption i have now and then she wouldnt have to deal with all of this today. Maybe shed just been working somewhere as a hairdresser and her life would be simpler need to know its not true. On what isnt the name far as im concerned life what i know would be meaningless. Anyway i mean it was not so good who created a happy home for the victims of rape can be challenging to lead a normal family life and raise. The small town of god roster is located 200 kilometers from new straits village. Its home to a hospital nurse and move which in his adopted father moved him in the war islands mother was raped by numerous serbian soldiers when she came to this hospital to give birth it was under seige moved him was the custodian here. Was a good move to go to spend and know if she gave birth to him. Because the next day she just disappeared she left him here. To food to the hospital it was full of war casualties at the time and it was kyles. There were hardly any normal patients rebirth certainly couldnt. Move him and other hospital employees cared for the infant. The minute it seriously with. The slave going to him to. Give orders to both of them fellas. To try to save his job it might have been i. Believe much as cotton has goods as an. Island takes us home to his apartment but he doesnt want to meet his wife and child. So cool it was that on my birthday that was your best day. Plus i 5 know for one thing you can. Such happy celebrate. Were only possible because moved him off and took the orphaned island home with him. One day i came home and had to tell my family that we would soon have to show you by the arlen the because the hospital put him up for adoption. And that there was a rule the kid started crying and just how it happened we couldnt part with him so we adopted him ourselves. Alans adoptive family brought him up like their own son but that didnt protect him from being singled out for verbal abuse for many he remained the son of an enemy. Its very upsetting to be called serb bastard or told you were found in a garbage bin being excluded like that was really awful for me condemn the victims not the perpetrators and they still do to this day. To the. Trauma exclusion stigma discrimination. This is what the war bequeath to the invisible children. Pollin and i know that in 2017 through a study on postwar trauma together they set up their organization forgotten children of war theyve already managed to kindle unprecedented public debate in bosnia about the subject of wartime rape. But the push was that this was going to. But. Our 1st big step is getting an appraisal of the legal situation. Gotten ourselves a lawyer. Shes examining bosnian laws and International Conventions. The childrens Rights Convention or the human Rights Convention of. The other not just. One lasting problem which children of the war face is that weve lost a fundamental human right the right to respect for private and family life. As they push for legislative reform they hope to raise awareness of their situation. Whether theres actually its worthwhile going public and talking openly about this after all the years we suffered in and dirty mill usual what we know where we come from. For so long. In Bosnia Herzegovina today people like arlen and i know are not considered war victims. I know is working to change that with the help of lawyer appeared on a decline its a formality with wide reaching consequences the children of veterans and war invalids are entitled to housing benefits and educational grants. The children of rape victims get no such support. New ball to when the children of rape victims by or inherit property for example they have to pay the full tax write that more victims on the other hand get a 50 percent tax rebate. Each. A few dollars trying to clarify whether bosnian law is in breach of International Conventions and human rights. Shes optimistic and explains why. As a squeaking movie. On a listen i have gone through the International Conventions to see if bosnian law is in violation and then i came across this section that states there is an ombudsman for cases like ours so i looked it up in the ministry. But it turns out they dont have an ombudsman much they just never installed the position that i deal with. On their quote was that the un could address that. Yes that would be good because of our own legal assessment otherwise they wont find out about it is not a question is what International Conventions carry weight in bosnia a country that depends on financial aid. Lawyers use them as a basis to press for reforms. To plan on the ease acquired by the loss to me our legal assessment is probably the 1st ever on wartime rape no its definitely the 1st ever consequence of the laws simply have to be altered to reflect what happened with them and to comply with International Norms not a document to be told means the problem gets. Bosnias laws were largely adopted from the federation of yugoslavia to which it belonged. Bosniaherzegovina was established by the 1995 digna courts which ended the war and set up a power sharing government designed to represent the countrys 3 major ethnic groups. It was considered a temporary solution but to this day the presidency rotates between a serb a muslim and the croats. And its frozen ethnic divisions in place. I know wants to do her part to overcome these divisions shes unrolled at a Youth Academy financed by the German Government its open to Bosnian Muslim serbs and croats students. During the 12 month course the young people learn about political processes and Civic Engagement and human rights and they graduate with a diploma that makes them eligible to apply for jobs with the government or human rights groups. Initially i know didnt share her personal history with her fellow students but that. Her story in a media report now she too is engaged with the invisible childrens fight for equality. Was that all of those. Days i guess ill be allowed to do a rape victims get a small benefit in the croat and muslim regions of bosnia its about 300. 00 euro but in the serb part its much less thats absurd as a major crime is the same no matter where it happened you cant. Differentiate between banja luka and sarah gave you my side i would assume you are sure that i know youve been a danny de plano is very reserved she would never open up and tell you all about herself the most the deal and yes some people think shes aloof even a little arrogant. But whats impressed me about her particularly after i heard her personal story is that she never makes distinctions in university to those. For her all victims are equal. They are all equally traumatised. By that officials will question you and force you to tell them the whole story yeah its a catch marginal dumbass that the scope of what place you know its normal for you when youre used to it but its dreadful question why do you have to divulge the details of your mothers or deal to a total stranger every single time why not just. Here at the academy i know it isnt just learning how to fight discrimination and Human Rights Violations of the course its also helped her overcoming his ideas over meeting new people and opening up to them this is me you know. When she started attending the fruit round there was really a pleasure to see how much shes ready to work on herself and she made it great progress especially on a personal development in terms of relation to the group. Now i now find she can speak openly about parts of her past but there are other parts she still guards a secret. Limited to 3 i know the name of the guy who raped my mother ive done research and he has another daughter and a son some. Time talking said that he might. As an only child i know always longed for siblings. Now somehow your chip prospected i just passed my brother while my sister and i look at them when they get about some. 5 now and i ask myself if ive ever unknowingly crossed paths with my siblings chicago for them to simply assert that i got and over the years my desire to meet them is grown yet i soon realize thats not possible i simply cant do that to my own mother and i thought that his would be devastating for her. And everything. Sort of my up and there was lots of. I know has decided not to look for siblings or live somewhere in sarajevo. She has to find other ways to put the past behind her. The model isnt some assessable now that i tell myself theres nothing shameful about it for me and the society has taught me that i have to feel shame but i know i have nothing to be ashamed of. Thats why ive turned my life around and focused on my past its given my life real meaning. I know meets up with lawyer has done a check while in downtown syria but. Theyre joined by ali we set up the association with. It has 13 members but most of stayed away because they dont want to be filmed by our cameras. The group is fighting for the same status as children of war veterans and in full its. A mission for the right to withhold the name of their biological father on official paperwork no questions asked for boy thats good news. Ive looked at the laws in all parts of the country and everywhere public offices only require you to name one parent it doesnt matter if its the father or mother. The junior tree arkell Civil Servants always ask for the fathers name but there is no legal basis for that request told to look back to how we need to make this public as soon as past. Because then you can decide which name you provide you can take care of all your paperwork without mentioning your personal story optional watched an obvious to me in the book to. Show support this doesnt appear in my case i can provide the name of my adoptive father also both of my mothers parents did the same heritage rights as my sisters. Over the years of the program i mean. Over the years missed thats great if we can choose which parent to name were adults we can decide for ourselves which name to provide the authorities with. The theme one of them comes to the group agrees to hold a News Conference to publicize the mistake authorities are making. Its already discovered that together they can make a difference. Because you. Think. Its Graduation Day for i know and her fellow course members are mothers of the night and step father knows what ive come for the occasion. Minus studied here at the academy for a year and by the end of it was able to speak openly with her classmates about her past. As this is my mother it. Sounds like she is i am i think. That what i mean is that there was. Let out. Some some of them let me go to some of my time look at my mother and just see how strong she is im proud that shes my mother it doesnt matter to me that i was born from nature and shed enough for me and wants me to be happy as. Much Nelson Newman did to them it must tell you the move on the show the. Titer has also completed her psychology degree shes now attending the 1st International Congress of child and adolescent psychotherapy in bosnia. It was organized by her friend and mentors the trauma specialist daily she conducted the 1st scientific studies on postwar trauma in bosnia and introduced i know to. This is. This that i think it is common or warrants that the taboo against speaking about sexual wartime violence serves to pass the trauma like poison from one generation to the next the only remedy she says spoke with discussion. All the debts of children born of war have very painful unpleasant experiences as they grow up these often lead to trauma related disease and psychiatric disorders on the bottom which i are close to so for example posttraumatic stress disorders depression or some are to form disorders. Which in addition there are complex long term consequences such as a lack of Family Support which can have a social and economic impact. As a researcher wants to put a human face on her findings shes hoping for i know how but its a challenge. A big problem here is also this whole blame and a culture of rape that is. Still present in tradition bound boston culture where. Society often think of the shoe afraid as mathare off and. But not as a matter of. Violation of human rights has been mentoring i know over the past 2 years. First parties. For me now is the most important because. She she knows everything. And. And i dont know what to do i just call on what i and she she she she have never time and its to be the most beautiful. Moment of the nations ship so my other mother. This was during the conference i know suddenly makes a decision she feels ready to face the audience and speak for the 1st time in public about her past. This is this. Will go up to the garden i like to introduce i have a usage she has a bachelors in psychology and just graduated top of her class from the academy run by the German Youth Organization shuler helps in leaving. And i hope shell soon do her masters in psychology. Thank you to both. Of those and we ask ourselves whether it was just us or whether there were others like us. There were people who could sincerely say i understand you what you went through wasnt easy. I stand before you in the as the living proof that the damages inflicted by war cannot be assigned to a nationality or ethnic girls but the more the same lesson mike it has nothing to do whatsoever with nationality. Is a traumatic experience and thats how we should treat it thank you. I know will fight on not just for herself but for all those who have suffered like her so that bosnia as invisible children can step out of the shadows and live a life without discrimination in dignity. Components thing. How are they adapting to the climate crisis. Scientists looking into. The germs of plants to see what they can learn. To months and their amazing abilities. To morrow to do it in 30 minutes on d w. On the road with our superheroes my mission is clear. And me closely should explore germany. They dive in and check everything out theres a lot going on in. Germany tried and tested. The system. W. 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