My Body, Your Weapon. The role of rape camps in the use of sexual violence as a strategic weapon for ethnic cleansing in the case study of Bosnia
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2025-06-25
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The war in Bosnia broke out shortly after the independence declaration from former Yugoslavia. Bosnia is a multi-ethnic country mainly inhabited by Muslim Bosnians, Orthodox Serbs, and Catholic Croats. In the war of Bosnia between 1992 and 1995, the Ram plan was created by Serbs to cleanse Bosnia of Bosniaks ethnically. Rape was used as strategic weapon to serve three purposes (1) to create fear, (2) stigmatisation of survivors and (3) impregnation. This thesis will dive deeper into the role of the rape camps in the use of sexual violence as a strategic weapon for ethnic cleansing. Rape camps were quickly facilitated as a spatial technology to gain territorial control and to demonstrate symbolic and physical power differences in order to gain ethno-national security faster. The thesis will focus on the role of ethnonationalism, media coverage and military culture to provide a deeper understanding on how rape camps worked as a spatial technology. It will use qualitative data gathered by a data collection method of secondary data, with one additional expert interview to answer the research questions.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen