VIOLENCE WITHOUT A FACE: THE ANALYSIS OF TESTIMONIES OF WOMEN WHO WERE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED DURING THE WAR IN CROATIA AND BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

This study examined testimonies of women who were sexually assaulted multiple times by multiple unknown offenders. In these testimonial narratives, it is possible to detect specific modalities of traumatic event expression. This expression lacks any spatial, temporal, auditory or emotional determinants of the event.These fourteen women (out of 17) were imprisoned and forcefully isolated in detention camps or private houses in the occupied...