Ethnic conflicts and girls' rights in the Balkans : what implications for the future?
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Laura GUERCIO (eds), Girl children in armed conflict : a study conducted by the Universities Network for Children in Armed Conflict, Rome : Editrice APES, 2021, pp. 149-154
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BESHKU, Klodiana, Ethnic conflicts and girls’ rights in the Balkans : what implications for the future?, in Laura GUERCIO (eds), Girl children in armed conflict : a study conducted by the Universities Network for Children in Armed Conflict, Rome : Editrice APES, 2021, pp. 149-154 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77723
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This chapter builds upon the need to adopt a “critical memory” in the Western Balkans, especially by the aggressors’ part to start admitting their responsibility for past ethnic conflicts in the region to start building strong and solid relations for the future, under the EU umbrella. It explores some moments in the bloody ethnic conflicts during the dissolution of the Ex-Yugoslavia (1990-1995 and 1998-1999) where abuses have occurred against women and little girls during situations of armed conflict. As in the conflict in Rwanda, in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as in Kosovo, these abuses consist of killing, maiming, recruiting, raping, sexual violence, sexual exploitation, and abduction, all defined in the Rome Statute as constituting crimes against humanity and war crimes. In these conflicts, the systematic rape of girls and women as a weapon of war played an integral part in the war strategy.