Calling The Ghosts: A Story About Rape, War And Women

Mandy Jacobson and Karmen Jelincic's document of atrocities inflicted on prisoners at the Serbian concentration camp of Omarska is a shattering missive from hell, focusing on the horrific experiences of two Bosnian Muslim women. After their town is invaded by Serbian troops in the spring of 1992, Jadranka Cigelj and Nusreta Sivac are taken from their families and sent to the Omarska "detention camp," a derelict iron ore-mine converted by the Serbs into a makeshift but highly effective death camp. There, they are witnesses to unimaginable crimes and are themselves the victims of systematic rape and torture. Having survived the ordeal when countless others did not, th...