Not only in the house - they would also take us to the front line for the soldiers to torture us. That was the worst, the worst period of my whole life. 'That same day we were locked in our house. I knew I had been raped, and my sister-in-law, too.' In a corner, she saw her mother-in-law, holding her children and crying. When I woke up, I was totally naked and covered in blood, and my sister-in-law was also naked and covered in blood. When they found no guns they started beating her husband, said Jasmina who asked CNN not to use her last name to protect her children.
Paramilitaries loyal to Arkan, the Serbian ultranationalist later indicted for crimes against humanity, came to the home Jasmina shared with her husband and extended family to search for valuables and weapons. 'The men from my family were beaten up the first day. Sometimes we could see their bodies in the gardens, sometimes not even that,' Jasmina said. 'Whole families were disappearing during the night. But in April 1992, the Serb soldiers took over her city of Bijeljina, in northeast Bosnia near the border with Serbia, and began to kill, torture and terrorize the Muslims there in a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing.
