Hrvatski
These pages are dedicated to women’s memories of resistance to war and nationalisms in the countries of former Yugoslavia, but also to the activities of all women in the world who, in the context of transitional processes, raise their voice against war violence and discrimination.
“In every war there were rapes; systematic rape, however, is something different; it had to be invented, just like the gas chamber. Our hunters used to kill people, they had their blood on their hands, and now they are taking over the role of the husbands and impregnating the wives with another ethnic group. This makes the rape more heinous because it is in the function of ethnic cleansing and the creation of a pure nation. The occupier is a sadist, he leaves his victims alive but he destroys their lives. All this represents extreme right-wing thinking where everything runs through the same blood, through sperm. The husband is gone, he is killed or exiled and somebody needs to take his place. A phantasmagoric idea stands behind this, an idea that, objectively speaking, is not just a Serbian specialty but an idea which the Serbs have brought to paroxism - : they have put rape at the service of national identity . (...) rape, unfortunately, is committed in every war, (...) but what the Serbs are doing is something else. (...) Just like looting, rape is organized in the framework of the ethnic rape project.”