Calling the Ghosts: A Story about Rape, War and Women

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Barcode: 58963251 Call Number: V-SER 011 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 63 min. Date: c1996, System Requirements: NTSC Region 1 Language: Serbian, Serbo-Croatian Creator: Directed by Mandy Jacobson and Karmen Jelincic Description: "An extraordinarily powerful documentary, the first-person account of two women caught in a war where rape was as much an everyday weapon as bullets or bombs. Jadranka Cigelj and Nusreta Sivac, childhood friends and lawyers, enjoyed the lives of "ordinary modern women" in Bosnia-Herzegovina until one day former neighbors became tormentors. Taken to the notorious Serb concentration camp of Omarska, the two women, like other Muslim and Croat women interned there, were systematically tortured and humiliated by their Serb captors. Once released, the pair turned personal struggles for survival into a larger fight for justice - aiding other women similarly brutalized and successfully lobbying to have rape included in the international lexicon of war crimes by the UN Tribunal at the Hague. Chronicling the two women's experience and their remarkable transformation, Calling the Ghosts is an indispensable resource for deepening understanding of human rights abuses and combating violence against women. Written By: Fiona Kelleghan" - Women Make Movies website Collection: Language Resource Center