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The host of the “Evening with Ivan Ivanović” talk
show made the following statement in the part of the show dedicated
to jokes (8:25 min): “The number of Bosnian women who have given
birth to children before the age of 15 has increased since 1995. And
then people say that ‘the blue helmets’ did not do a thing over
there.”
Ivanović’s “joke” reinterprets one of the most
horrific episodes of the war in BiH in a morbid and offensive
manner, showing the mass rapes of young girls and women as a funny
episode in the deployment of international peacekeeping troops in
BiH, at the same time seriously neglecting a number of judicial
facts about the victims and the extent of wartime rapes of women in
BiH.
Human rights organizations point to the fact that
Ivanović’s possible reference to allegations about the rape of
Bosniak women in one of the Serb concentration camps during the war
by members of the UN peacekeeping troops, who have not yet been
prosecuted, represents a particular insult for the rape victims, who
have not seen justice to date.
Autonomous Women’s Center
Center for Modern Skills
Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies
Center for Cultural Decontamination
Civic Initiatives
Civil Rights Defenders
FLIPSUR – Feminist List Against Wartime Rape in
Countries of Former Yugoslavia
Humanitarian Law Center
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
I.A.N. International Aid Network
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights - YUCOM
Regional Minority Center
Victimology Society of Serbia
Women Against Violence
Women in Black
Youth Initiative for Human Rights |
