See that they documented every detail of the rape what happened to her injuries and 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. Messed up. 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 1902190 5 sorry eva was ravaged by an ethnic conflict between Bosnian Muslims serbs and croats. The war was characterized by ethnic cleansing mass murder and systematic militarized rate. No one knows how many women were sexually assaulted. Estimates range between 20. 50. 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. It all of. My 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. 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 recognize bosnias invisible children as war victims a status that grants certain types of assistance the demand has drawn abusive comments on their facebook page. Close to notion money could be close to. One rehearsal wrote on our mothers were prostitutes it wasnt our fault. But theyd sold their bodies for a little food is the result of 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. And i know some. 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 or. 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 mother is a b no no 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 and years and just unthinkable the single man would marry a woman with a child. Everyone gossiped why doesnt he find himself another woman one without a child. It was or was it over 2 months one no one apart from news read knew the story of your birth. And 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. And im going to. 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 had so many problems with the 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 discourse. Renewables only schoolboys so very. I know that 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 we have a car i dont want to keep or i didnt even see or as a human being from the city as until net i just waited to get the birth over with to be finally rid of this thing inside me some would all go on after she was born i didnt pick her up for 3 months didnt change a single diaper. Sometimes i still wonder if it would have been better to give her up for adoption i knew and she wouldnt have to deal with all of this today. Maybe shed just be 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 that i know would be meaningless. In that way and it was not what created a happy home for the victims of rape you can be challenging to lead a normal family life in. The small town of good roster is located 200 kilometers from new straits village. Its home to a hospital nurse other new hitch and his adoptive 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. But no true born to spend and no here she gave birth to him. The next day she just disappeared she left him enough. To food to the hospital was full of war casualties at the time and it was kyles. There were hardly any normal patients rebirth certainly for new friends are. Moved out and other hospital employees cared for the infant. Going to sit seriously with. This lady that security is going to. Give what is devotion and philosophy. To try to save his job and it might have been i guess conclude. That my leaving my does cotton has goods as an. Island takes us home to his apartment but he doesnt want to meet his wife and child. So it was that on my birthday that was the best day. Plus i 5 know for the period. Such. Happy celebrations were only possible because most of them often 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 bye to our lives to be just the hospital put him up for adoption. And thats when there was a rule the kid started crying and thats how it happened we couldnt part with him so we adopted him ourselves. 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 people 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. Because of the business community. But if. 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. Just. One lasting problem we children of the war face is that we have 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. In the world though theres actually its worthwhile going public and talking openly about this after all the years we suffered in enduring humiliation what we know where we come from. Who will go 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 a lawyer for the diner to check mine its a formality with wide reaching consequences for children of veterans and war invalids are entitled to housing benefits and educational grants. The children of rape victims get no such support. Surely the math and. When the children of rape victims buy or inherit property for example they have to pay the full tax write that the. Victims on the other hand get a 50 percent tax rebate. Dollars trying to clarify whether bosnian law is in breach of International Conventions and human rights. Shes optimistic and explains why. As this quit eating movie. Im only seen 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 do of the. Laws that the un could address that. Clears that would be good because of our own legal assessment otherwise they wont find out about it hes not. Sure theres been a National 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 of 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. Means of problem yet see. These laws were largely adopted from the federation of yugoslavia to which i belong. Bosniaherzegovina was a stablish 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 a croat. 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 then didnt read her story in a media report now she too was engaged with the invisible childrens fight for equality. Was out of the mothers of. Your luggage you know a great figure whos got 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 sarajevo you know it was that it was on your show that i know now yet another one is the plane i was very reserved she would never open up and tell you all about herself the most the deal in that 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 you know pretty 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 attached not an image of the disco pit 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 ordeal 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 course its also helped her overcoming his ideas over meeting new people and opening up to them and you know. When she started attending that for well there was really a pleasure to see home eyes shes ready to work on herself and she made it great progress especially on a personal development in terms of relations 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. Because not limited because we i know the name of the guy who raped my mother ive done research and he has another daughter and a son. Kojo he said let him out of the idea. As an only child i know always longed for siblings. Now so now your chip crosland if i just passed my brother was my sister did i look at them when they get about a dozen toy. 5 now and i ask myself if ive ever unknowingly crossed paths with my siblings chicago but the most simply are certain that i got sent over the years my desire to meet them is grown yet i soon realized thats not possible i simply cant do that to my own mother and i got his would be devastating for her. Maybe they could sort of my up in this with his thoughts and. I know has decided not to look for siblings or live somewhere in syria if. She has to find other ways to put the past behind her. The bottle isnt some of us of all men as i tell myself theres nothing shameful about it women the society has taught me that i have to feel shame but i know i have nothing to be ashamed of. Thats why i have turned my life around and focused on my past its given my life real meaning. Meets up with a lawyer whos done object by me in downtown syria but. Theyre joined by ali who 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 invalids. And 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 of. The junior tree arkell Civil Servants always ask for the fathers name but there is no legal basis for that request also look back to how it was that 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 in august he may have. To show some clue this doesnt appear in my case i can provide the name of my adoptive father also both of my mothers parents did the same inheritance rights as my sisters. Of the 4 remind me. Of the mysterious 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 group agrees to hold a News Conference to publicize the mistake authorities are making. Its already discovered that together they can make a difference it. Was you. Know. Its Graduation Day for all i know and her fellow course members are mothers of beano and stepfather have 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 their classmates about her past. This is my mother. Said. She i am i think. That what i mean is that there was. Let out. Some of them will clearly be jealous of my i 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 hatred shed enough for me and wants me to be happy as. Much Nelson Newman to limit my pleasure than have all the. Tyner 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 mentor the trauma specialist dale she conducted the 1st scientific studies on postwar trauma in bosnia and introduced i know to alan. Johnston so. This. Commoner warns 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 just open discussion. All the debts children born of war have very painful unpleasant experiences as they grow up these often lead to trauma related disease and psychiatric disorders. For example posttraumatic stress disorders depression or some are to form disorders and. 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 our wants to put a human face on her findings shes hoping for i know how but its a challenge. A big problem here so these sites. And a culture of rape that. Still present tradition bound boston culture. Society often think of the issue of free as meth or off and. But not as a matter. Violation of human rights has been mentoring i know over the past 2 years. Her support is. For me now is the most important because. She she knows everything. And. And i dont know what to do i just call on her and she she she she have to marry time and its to the most beautiful. Moment you know out of the nation ship so my other mother. 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. The drop of the of i go out and 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 health in leven and i hope shell soon do her masters in psychology. Thank you both peters most of those nascar selves and whether it was just us or whether there were others like us you know whether there were people who could sincerely say i understand you know what you went through wasnt easy. I stand before you as the living proof that the damages inflicted by war cannot be assigned to a nationality or ethnic group but the more. Sinister mike has nothing to do whatsoever with nationality not when there is a traumatic experience and thats how we should treat it like you. I know will fight on not just for herself but for all those who have suffered like her so that bosnians invisible children can step out of the shadows and live a life without discrimination in dignity. Didnt come in strange. Power there adapting to the climate crisis. Scientists are looking into the intelligence of plants to see what they can learn. And that amazing ability. To borrow to do it. On d w. Oh if you and justice and freedom the 1st words of the German National anthem and the 3 Central Valley was that formed the foundation of this country in the us to dispose of the motive one always has to fight for justice against never been given and secure for all time list of all those who. 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