'I thought my mother hated me because I was the most horrible experience in her life.' Via Reuters
SARAJEVO, Oct 14 - Ajna Jusic, the first baby to be registered as born of rape during the Bosnian war in the 1990s, describes to a packed Sarajevo theatre the discrimination and bullying she endured as a child with an unknown father and a mother branded a"whore" in a deeply patriarchal society.
"I thought my mother hated me because I was the most horrible experience in her life," Jusic's voice states, during a performance of the play"In the Name of the Father", a joint Austrian-Bosnian production. Jusic's mother was raped in 1993 by an enemy soldier in a small town in central Bosnia and sent by her parents to a shelter for victims of wartime sexual violence to give birth. There Jusic was registered as a child born of rape.
"We are trying to show that rape is a trauma for everyone and cannot be looked at through an ethnic lens," she said. "They need to break the silence and take a place at the table in society," said Darrel Toulon, the play's director.Jusic, 26, discovered the truth of her origins at the age of 15. She kept the secret to herself for nine months before admitting it to her family and friends. Years of psycho-therapy followed.
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