Languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian. BOSNIA: HEALING THE WOUNDS OF WAR. VIDEO. AUDIO. MOUNTAIN / TOWN OF FOCA/.
UN IN ACTION Release Date: February 2011 Programme No. 1278 Length: 4’16” Languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian BOSNIA: HEALING THE WOUNDS OF WAR VIDEO
AUDIO NARRATION
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Nestled in the hills of Bosnia, amid the tranquil
BRICK BUILDING EXTERIOR
scenery, lies Foca, a town with a dark and troubled past. A past filled with pain and for
WOMAN WATCHING PEOPLE ON
one woman, memories so horrific they last a
STREET
lifetime. (18)
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE – FIGHTERS
Her story began in April 1992 when Serb
ON STREETS / FIGHTER FIRING
forces here unleashed a campaign of ethnic
SHOULDER CANNON / BURNING
cleansing, targeting mainly Muslims and
HOUSES
Croats. Also unleashed – mass rapes. (14) ENISA:
ENISA SALCINOVIC ON CAMERA
(Serb-Croatian)
F
“The horror that humans can inflict, it’s unimaginable, the agony the women suffered, it’s unbelievable.” (9) NARRATION
PHOTO OF YOUNG ENISA WITH
Enisa Salcinovic was thirty-seven then,
BABY AND MAN
married and the mother of two. She was also one of some 2,000 women in her hometown of
TOWN OF FOCA, STONE PATH TO
Foca to be held in makeshift “rape camps”,
EXTERIOR OF BUILDING
like this one … Partizan…a recreational hall before the war. (19)
ENISA ENTERING BUILDING,
Enisa has never been back inside, until today
CLIMBING UP STAIRS
….eighteen years to the day since she escaped these walls. (10) ENISA:
ENISA LOOKING AROUND ROOM
(Serb-Croatian)
F
“Through that door they brought them in, and out (pointing). And here there were mats laid
ENISA CRYING AND COVERING
out (crying). Here there were hundreds of
FACE
women (sobbing).” (13) NARRATION
ENISA SOBBING, BENDING OVER
The memories come flooding back. (2) ENISA:
(Serb-Croatian)
F
CORNER OF ROOM WITH CHAIRS,
“Every day and every night women were
ENISA STANDING IN CORNER
taken… some never returned.” (8) NARRATION
PAN DOWN OF WINDOW TO PINK
The fear was so great she says, even the
CHILDREN’S PURSE
children were too afraid to cry. (4) ENISA:
(Serb-Croatian)
F
ENISA CRYING WHILE WALKING
“Here people died of starvation as well, only
THROUGH BUILDING
able to eat what little crumbs were left over from the soldiers (leans onto table) How is it possible for people to play table tennis here today? (cries) They’re repainting so no one else can see what they did to us… They can’t cover that up.”
(22)
DR. DUBRAVKA SALCIC:
(English)
F
DR. DUBRAVKA SALCIC ON
“Victims of sexual torture very often develop
CAMERA
post traumatic stress disorder, which is chronic” (4) NARRATION
CLOSEUP OF DR. WRITING, PAN
Psychiatrist Dubravka Salcic is founder of
UP TO HER LEANING OVER
Bosnia’s Center of Rehabilitation of Torture Victims. (5) DR. DUBRAVKA SALCIC:
(English)
F
CLOSEUP OF ENISA CRYING, HEAD “People are suffering. They feel shame, guilty. ON ARM
They have nightmares. They have also flashbacks… The process of recovery is very
DR. SALCIC ON CAMERA
painful and very slow.” (9) NARRATION
SHADOW OF ENISA, PAN UP TO
An estimated 80% of wartime rape victims still
HER CRYING
experience psychological and physical symptoms some fifteen years after peace
BOSNIAN FLAG
came to Bosnia. (11)
ENISA SITTING ON STEPS OUTSIDE While victims, like Enisa, did become eligible HOUSE
for some financial compensation in 2008, experts say more systematic treatment, and
ENISA WALKING AWAY
better access to it, is essential to finally begin to heal the wounds of war. (17)
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This report was produced by Andi Gitow for the United Nations.
