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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Bakira Hasečić is a Bosniak woman from Višegrad, a town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1992 during the ethnic cleansing of Višegrad that took place in the early days of the Bosnian War she was raped in the Višegrad police station by Bosnian Serb soldiers, members of the Army of Republika Srpska, and then taken elsewhere where she was raped by a soldier from Serbia. Her sister died in a detention camp.Her experiences led to her becoming one of the most prominent human rights activists in Bosnia, working with organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. She campaigns to secure justice for the women victims of the Bosnian War in national and international courts, in particular the victims of rape and sexual abuse.Today she is President of the Association of Women Victims of War (Udruzenje Žene-Žrtve Rata), based in Sarajevo. Her organisation campaigns for the rights of women who were the victims of rape and similar crimes during the war, gathering evidence and information about war criminals and rapists hiding in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia with a view to securing their prosecution. The Association has provided key testimony in rape and sexual abuse trials linked to the conflict and has helped obtain justice and financial and psychological aid for many of its thousand-plus members.Bakira Hasečić was one of the victims of the notorious Milan Lukić and campaigned prominently to have rape charges included in the indictment against Milan and his cousin Sredoje Lukić before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague.At the trial of Zeljko Lelek for crimes against humanity committed in Višegrad during 1992, including murders, deportation, forcible detention and rape committed jointly with the Beli Orlovi paramilitary group commanded by Milan Lukić, Lelek's allegations that Bakira Hasečić was responsible for his detention led judge Paul Melchior Brilman to observe that Lelek's allegations implied that \"Hasečić is a very important person\". The trial was the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina's first trial for Visegrad rapes. Lelek was subsequently found guilty of rape at Vilina Vlas and other crimes.Bakira Hasečić has led efforts to encourage Muslims to return to Visegrad but she told Human Rights Watch that by 2005 she had resigned herself to the fact that \"the return has failed, because war criminals continue to live freely there. Almost nobody returned to the town.\"Bakira Hasečić's work has been featured in documentary programmes produced by the BBC and Al-Jazeera."@en }

• Bakira_Hasečić abstract "Bakira Hasečić is a Bosniak woman from Višegrad, a town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1992 during the ethnic cleansing of Višegrad that took place in the early days of the Bosnian War she was raped in the Višegrad police station by Bosnian Serb soldiers, members of the Army of Republika Srpska, and then taken elsewhere where she was raped by a soldier from Serbia. Her sister died in a detention camp.Her experiences led to her becoming one of the most prominent human rights activists in Bosnia, working with organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. She campaigns to secure justice for the women victims of the Bosnian War in national and international courts, in particular the victims of rape and sexual abuse.Today she is President of the Association of Women Victims of War (Udruzenje Žene-Žrtve Rata), based in Sarajevo. Her organisation campaigns for the rights of women who were the victims of rape and similar crimes during the war, gathering evidence and information about war criminals and rapists hiding in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia with a view to securing their prosecution. The Association has provided key testimony in rape and sexual abuse trials linked to the conflict and has helped obtain justice and financial and psychological aid for many of its thousand-plus members.Bakira Hasečić was one of the victims of the notorious Milan Lukić and campaigned prominently to have rape charges included in the indictment against Milan and his cousin Sredoje Lukić before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague.At the trial of Zeljko Lelek for crimes against humanity committed in Višegrad during 1992, including murders, deportation, forcible detention and rape committed jointly with the Beli Orlovi paramilitary group commanded by Milan Lukić, Lelek's allegations that Bakira Hasečić was responsible for his detention led judge Paul Melchior Brilman to observe that Lelek's allegations implied that \"Hasečić is a very important person\". The trial was the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina's first trial for Visegrad rapes. Lelek was subsequently found guilty of rape at Vilina Vlas and other crimes.Bakira Hasečić has led efforts to encourage Muslims to return to Visegrad but she told Human Rights Watch that by 2005 she had resigned herself to the fact that \"the return has failed, because war criminals continue to live freely there. Almost nobody returned to the town.\"Bakira Hasečić's work has been featured in documentary programmes produced by the BBC and Al-Jazeera.".