Angelina Jolie visits rape victims of Bosnia war - PHOTO

Angelina Jolie, the 38 years old director, actress, and humanitarian landed in Sarajevo with William Hague, the British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, who she traveled with on their mission.Discussing her visit, Angelina said that they were there to meet victims of the Bosnian war, the female and male survivors of rape who are carrying a terrible burden. “The use of rape as a weapon of war is one of the great injustices of our time. For too long the world has tolerated these crimes, and left survivors to struggle in the shadows. Our goal is to bring forward the voices of the survivors of these crimes and to ask the world to stand with them and against impunity.”Jolie, was spotted getting visibly upset as she listened to the rape victims in the town of Srebrenica. Actress Angelina Jolie broke down in tears while she talked to the rape victims of the Bosnian war.Jolie, along with William Hague, was in Sarajevo for promoting a campaign to end sexual violence against women in war. Speaking later, she said that there could be no peace while women in conflict or post-conflict zones are raped with impunity.Jolie and Mr Hague will be co-hosting a global conference in London to prevent rape being used as a tactic in war. It is hoped to break taboos about war rape.The head of the association of Srebrenica mothers, Munira Subasic, said that the tradition is not to talk about the rape. Many women who had been through it do not talk about it. That was why the visit was so important. To show these women they do not have to cope with it alone.The step was partly inspired by Jolie’s film “In the Land of Blood and Honey”, which deals with sexual violence on a woman during Bosnia’s war. Jolie and Hague laid flowers at a cemetery for Bosnian Muslim victims of the Srebrenica massacre which was the worst massacre of Europe since World War Two.(theeasterntribune.com)ANN.Az