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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.