ABSTRACT
The war (1992–1995) in the former Yugoslavia has brought widespread destruction, displacement, and death to the civilian population, in addition to the usual military casualties of war ( National Geographic, 1996). For example, the population of Bosnia was approximately 5 million in 1990 (before the war). Since then, 2 million people have become refugees; 250,000 civilians have been killed; and an estimated 30 to 50 thousand women and children have been systematically raped (Post et al., 1993). For the first time in history, the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal included sexual assault as a crime of war (Simons, 1996). Research has chronicled the psychological sequelae of the rape, torture, and traumatization of Bosnian and Croatian women and children (Kozaric-Kovacic, Folnegovic-Smaic, Skrinjaric, Szajnberg, & Marusic, 1995; Simons, 1999; Yule, 2000).
