Heart of Rape Genocide is the 1st Novella in the Heart Novella Series. In Heart of Rape Genocide;

Sejla is a sixteen year old girl, held captive as a sex slave during the horrors of the Bosnian War – a time of ethnic cleansing and unchecked murder. She’s fighting uphill, desperate to hang on to her hope, her sanity, and even her name. Rahima is twelve; she’s in hiding from the depravity, but right under the noses of the enemies – worse yet, she’s slowly starving. If they can hold out long enough, then maybe their family, their friends, or even soldiers fighting against the genocide will come for them. But first they have to survive…

Heart of Rape Genocide 

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The Forgotten Rape Genocide of Bosnia – A Closer Look at Bosnian Civil War
It’s estimated that over 50,000 Muslim women in Bosnia were systematically raped as a war tactic to drive out Muslims and as coordinated ethnic cleansing. Mass genocide was committed against Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) in the form of murder, rape, and various methods of torture.

Military strategy of horrors
Today we rightly look back towards the widespread raping of Muslim Bosnian girls as abhorrent
However, whilst we may dedicate all of the worst adjectives in the words to such horrific acts, there was a twisted logic behind these actions, indeed it’s true to say that this widespread occurrence was based on military strategy.
And the aim? To effect genocide through impregnating Muslim girls with Serb children, with this particularly heinous form of ethnic cleansing bearing unhealable scars to this day.
One sufferer’s’ story
“Look at how many children you can have. Now you are going to have our children. You are going to have our little Chetniks”

Canadian Artist, Kai Kazi, was inspired to write his novella, Heart of Rape Genocide, after reading he read a shocking article where one of the victim shared her experience during the Bosnian Civil War. In which, the victim, recalls how 12 drunken Serbian militia entered her school, where over 100 girls attempted to hide. The Serbs selected 12 girls from the crowd, extracted them from their friends, their family and their community and transported to a pre-prepared lodging where they were to stay amongst their consistent attackers. (Fisk| 1993)

“They called us ‘bitches’ and one of them pointed at me”
This event would be the first of an uncountable number of rapes during the Bosnian war, where women and girls were turned to literal slaves. Taken from their homes, school and local streets and put to work within the hotels to clean, wash floors and be sexually assaulted for days upon end.
“Then one of the two Chetniks told me to undress. He said if I didn’t do what they wanted, they would cut my throat. I believed them. So they both raped me, one after the other”.

Ziba’s fate was shared by all but 10 of the 105 girls left in the school’s gymnasium, where rapes took place every day and each night over the course of a month, with many girls suffering at the hands of as many as seven men.

The terrible tangible aftermath of Rape Genocide
Rape genocide resulted in many abortions and can only be put into some sort of context when we consider that such rapes amounted upto 50,000 acts in total (Wood 2013); what’s more the compounding effects of rape exist today in ever more complex ways, with the children of rape struggling to identify themselves both practically for purposes such as marriage, as well as psychologically.

And of course the psychological issues aren’t merely restricted to the children of rape, but moreover to the women of rape, and as Lončar & Medved’s 2006 study shows psychological damage, suicidal thoughts and depression has become common place amongst the victims.

If you are interested in learning more, you should read Heart of Rape Genocide, a short novella by Canadian Artist Kai Kazi, which takes a closer look at the dark and twisted rape genocide during the Bosnian Civil War.