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Women and men have been tortured sexually by all sides in the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina (1991-1995). However, all documentation proves that systematic rape was committed mainly upon Bosnian Muslim women by Bosnian Serb and Serb militia, military personnel, and other persons in authority, often as a weapon in “ethnic cleansing.” Health and mental health professionals may play an important role in documenting rape in war, as well as in the treatment of survivors. The first section of this chapter presents data on 55 sexually tortured women who were included in the Danish psychosocial treatment programme Boswofam.
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Arcel, L.T. (2000). Deliberate Sexual Torture of Women in War. In: Shalev, A.Y., Yehuda, R., McFarlane, A.C. (eds) International Handbook of Human Response to Trauma. Springer Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4177-6_13
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