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Serbs Using Rape as a Weapon

CNN focuses on the rape issue. Footage interviews Marie de la Soudiere, the UN High Commission for Refugees and she says that there is an evidence of systematic use of rape as a weapon of terror.

Bibliographic Details
Institution:	Open Society Archives at Central European University
Language:	English
Subjects:	[Human rights organizations, War prisoners, War crimes and trials, Military Conflicts and Activities, Nationalisms/Autonomist and Separatist movements] archiveUnit
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:f019db94-8374-4e85-a173-24afce7e5682

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