PANEL ABOUT SERB CRIMES AND ABUSES OVER WOMEN IN BOSNIA

ZAGREB, July 7 (Hina) - Within the panel "Woman, War, Torture" in the cultural centre of The Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Croatian capital of Zagreb a film "Cry" was shown last evening. The documentary film of Ms. Shehida Bilalli, is testimony about rapes and abuses over women and girls committed by Serb forces during their aggression against Bosnia-Herzegovina. After the presentation of the film the president of the Croatian Victimological Society, Dr. Zvonimir Separovic, stressed that Serb mass killings, abuses and rapes were the flagrant case of war crime and part of Serb policy of genocide. He expressed hopes that indictments against war criminals might be soon brought. However, Z. Separovic warned that much confidence should not be put in the work of the International Tribunal for War Crimes in Haag. President of the Islamic Community in Slovenia and Croatia, Sefko Omerbasic, marked those crimes as the killing of human being's soul, and pointed out that the problem of raped women should be treated as much painlessly as possible for victims. Psychiatrist Muradif Kulenovic said that crimes of rape were acts aimed at humiliation of the Moslem people by Serbs. In this way Serb aggressors showed their attitude toward the Moslem people, according to Dr. Muradif Kulenovic. He also warned that a lot of men had been sexually abused in a brutal manner during the Serb aggression against Bosnia-Herzegovina. 071130 MET jul 94