{"id":5660,"date":"2014-03-31T20:18:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T12:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=5660"},"modified":"2014-03-31T20:18:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T12:18:29","slug":"angelina-jolie-uks-hague-praise-bosnia-for-including-rape-prevention-in-military-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/31\/angelina-jolie-uks-hague-praise-bosnia-for-including-rape-prevention-in-military-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Jolie, UK’s Hague praise Bosnia for including rape prevention in military training"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SARAJEVO\u2014Bosnia’s decision to include preventing sexual violence in military training is “groundbreaking” and should become the standard for U.N. peacekeeping missions, British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Angelina Jolie said Friday.<\/p>\n

“Warzone rape has been a taboo subject in all countries. You are helping to break down those taboos and redefining soldiering in the 21st century,” Jolie said as the two addressed a conference on sexual violence in war organized in Sarajevo by Bosnia’s Defence Ministry.<\/p>\n

Hague said rape was a devastatingly effective way to terrorize and displace a population and is being used currently in Syria, the Central African Republic and South Sudan.<\/p>\n

Jolie said the training was especially important for peacekeepers as their patrols “can mean that women no longer have to face a choice between going out for firewood and water and being raped or seeing their children go hungry.”<\/p>\n

Hague promised Britain will support a planned training centre in Sarajevo for future military and police peacekeepers from the region.<\/p>\n

Jolie and Hague launched a global campaign two years ago to fight sexual violence in armed conflicts, end impunity for the perpetrators and provide support for victims. So far, 141 countries have supported the initiative.<\/p>\n

Up to 50,000 women were raped during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The victims later sued at the UN war crimes tribunal, which resulted in wartime rapists being put behind bars for the first time in history.<\/p>\n

Jolie and Hague later met widows and mothers of genocide victims in Srebrenica a Bosnian town where Serb forces killed over 8,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995. Jolie came out of the meeting crying.<\/p>\n

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