Deputy in the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and delegate in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Sabina Cudic, participated in the session of the Committee for Respecting the Obligations and Commitments of the Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee), which was held in Paris.
Cudic presented data on recorded irregularities in BiH elections in 2022, and spoke about the necessity of adopting measures to protect the integrity of elections in BiH, with the aim of stopping election theft.
Deputy Cudic is also a member of the Committee for Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where, among other things, the prevention and fight against violence against women is discussed.
Cudic presented information about the Hague’s approach to the processing of rapes committed during the aggression against BiH. Before the Tribunal in The Hague, it was established for the first time in history that rape is a crime against humanity, and that it was used as a method of warfare.
“This was confirmed in the verdicts against Dragoljub Kunarac, Radomir Kovac and Zoran Vukovic for rape and abuse committed in 1992 in Foca,” emphasized Cudic.
She spoke about this in the context of war crimes in Ukraine and emphasized that the Kunarac verdict is the basis for prosecuting crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
She spoke about systemic failures in the past decades when it comes to the support system for victims, and about the importance that all perpetrators must be judged because the non-prosecution of war crimes continues to retraumatize victims in BiH.
“The brave testimonies of the women of BiH opened the way to the prosecution of all cases of wartime rape as a crime against humanity,” she concluded, Klix.ba reports.
E.Dz.
