cw: rape
I rarely use the world “evil,” but it’s the word for Vilina Vlas, a hotel & spa used as a rape concentration camp during the Bosnian War by a Serb paramilitary group.
@AhNidzara remembers the 200 Bosnian Muslim women & girls held there kosovotwopointzero.com/en/remembering…
I rarely use the world “evil,” but it’s the word for Vilina Vlas, a hotel & spa used as a rape concentration camp during the Bosnian War by a Serb paramilitary group.
@AhNidzara remembers the 200 Bosnian Muslim women & girls held there kosovotwopointzero.com/en/remembering…
Bosnian journalist, feminist and friend @AhNidzara took me to Vilina Vlas in 2016 so that I could see how the horrors that women and girls are subjected to are so quickly erased; how the site of their horror is again a hotel and spa. No memorial. As if nothing had happened there.
As a receptionist gave us a tour, I could feel the spirit of the women and girls who had been kept prisoner in that rape concentration camp. “We remember you, sisters. We honour you, sisters,”I kept saying to myself. I promised I would always remind the world of what they endured
Seeing people milling around in bathrobes, getting their hair styled in the salon, splashing around in the pool - which had been the site of daily mass rape of the women and girls - sickened me.
As soon as we exited the building, I asked Nidzara if I could hug her. Standing there, hugging her at the entrance of this place of horrors, I sobbed. And I continued sobbing as we drove away. Nidzara, in the passenger seat up front, held my hand as I cried in the back of the car
Edin, our driver who was a child during the war, couldn’t stand to come into the building with us.
I wanted to burn the place down. To destroy it brick by brick. #VilinaVlas
I wanted to burn the place down. To destroy it brick by brick. #VilinaVlas
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