Municipality
Foča is a town in eastern Bosnia where fighting began in April 1992. During 1992 and 1993, women and girls were detained in the school in Aladža, the Sportska dvorana Partizan (Partizan sports hall), and private houses and apartments in the town, where they were subjected to sexual violence.
Foča
Personal testimony · April 1992 – April 1993
When the war reached Foča in April 1992, Witness 87 was fifteen years old. After the attack of Serb forces on Trošanj on 3 July 1992, in which her father was killed, she was held for nine months in a series of places in the Foča municipality and subjected to sexual violence, and was then taken to Montenegro. Her testimony before the Hague Tribunal contributed to the conviction of Dragoljub Kunarac and Radomir Kovač in the first case in which an international court classified rape and enslavement as crimes against humanity.