[Hamp-law] Human Rights Film 10/26

[Flavio Risech]

Calling the Ghosts (1996)

The second installment of the Human Rights Film Series, sponsored by 
SS106T genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, the Law Program and the 
Dean of Multicultural Education.

Filmmakers: M. Jacobsen and K. Jelincic, 1996. Women survivors of 
Omarska Detention Camp during the Bosnian war of the early 1990s 
describe the camp and the widespread sexual violence against women in 
the region. After their release, the two women, one a lawyer, the 
other a former judge, speak about their experiences of systematic 
humiliation, rape and torture and seek to aid other women who were 
also brutalized. They lobby to have rape declared a war crime by the 
UN Tribunal at the Hague  and  demand the arrest of the camp 
commandant Zelko Mejankic. He was finally taken into custory by the 
International Criminal Tribunal at the Hague in 2003 and is currently 
detained there awaiting trial.

Please join us for this powerful and disturbing film.
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