Originally Posted by xDonnax

Facts do NOT lie. Rape was used as a weapon by the Serbs, to further the goal of ' ethnic cleansing '.


The situation in Kosovo is especially dire for women. One of the most cruel, yet powerful weapons the Serbs used to "ethnically cleanse" was rape. The numbers are staggering. No fewer than 20,000 women were raped before NATO intervened. And the damage done is not only physical, but lingering psychological trauma that increases because the women often can't speak of what happened to them.

http://www.womenforwomen.org/kosovo.htm
http://www.unfpa.org/women/bucharest/day2.htm

In general, rapes in Kosovo can be grouped into three categories: rapes in women's homes, rapes during flight, and rapes in detention. In the first category, security forces entered private homes and raped women in front of family members, in the yard or in an adjoining room. In the second category, internally displaced people wandering on foot and riding on tractors were repeatedly stopped, robbed, and threatened by the Yugoslav Army, Serbian police, or paramilitaries. If families could not produce cash, security forces sometimes threatened that their daughters would be taken away and raped; in some cases, even when families did provide money, their daughters were taken away. The third category of rapes took place in temporary detention centers, such as abandoned homes or barns.

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/kosovo/undword-03.htm