This is true, in my view, for immigrants, Muslims, people of color, LGBTQ folk, Jews, and even mere liberals now targeted by fascist ideology in Trump's America.
The role of a righteous witness is not limited to humanitarian agencies and religious leaders. Media workers must also learn that objectivity is not neutrality, but, rather, accuracy in calling out evil.
Dr. Young notes that Serbian sex terror had more than one goal: to victimize and stigmatize women by impregnating them.
The award-winning Bosnian film GRBAVICA (2006) dealt with the consequences of forced pregnancy among Muslim women. Silence is, I believe, a second rape for them.
Dr. Young, now retired, recalls the eloquent phrase employed by a woman whose story of multiple rapes she recorded. The woman was asked if telling her story was helpful. She responded: "You have been the chimney through which the smoke was released from the fire within my heart."
The sex terror in Bosnia-Hercegovina was ended by timely intervention directed by U.S. President Bill Clinton. Similar crimes have been carried out in Syria and Iraq by the terrorists of ISIS. These are the victims that will tend to be forgotten. They must not be.
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