ABSTRACT
Protective measures in place, fatigue and unwillingness of many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to provide information about former witnesses, made the task of finding the women a formidable one, and no claim can be made that the resulting sample is representative. The most important recommendation the respondents had for future witnesses of sexual assault was to 'tell the truth and not hide anything'. The majority of the survivors said they were financially worse off than before the war. Among the 83 percent who said they felt emotionally less stable, not a single person mentioned rape as the cause. Judge Schomburg, a judge at International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), went to Prijedor to talk to victims who had testified about rape and was surprised to learn how beneficial they had found the courtroom experience, how much they wanted to 'express a gratitude' for the opportunity to testify.
