I am sorry I missed this report. Being a Bosnian, being a woman, being powerless, makes me feel so angry. These women suffered so much and yet their rapists are still at large. Justice is something we all wish for but it happens only to those who are powerful enough. As for us, we better stop hoping that the Hague or international community will do something to make the wrong right. I hope that these children will eventually be the judges to their fathers.

First, you couldn't broadcast some twenty minutes without commercial break? I understand the corporate policy, but it was little tacky to see a “baby boom” commercial from oil company in the middle of the story about children of raped women.

Second, I really appreciate the effort, but are there numbers or some kind of statistics? How many children?

And finally, could you ask some politicians, from all three nations about the problem?

It amazes me that in the year 2007 there are still so many people who blame the victim of rape and ostricize the children born from rape. These women should be embraced and comforted for surviving such a horrendous ordeal. The children should be accepted for what they truly are, God's gift to mankind. But apparently that is not the case. We really have not come very far from the dark ages. Too many men still view women as a comodity. A raped women is viewed as damaged goods. For these women the horrific physical and psychological trauma they experienced being raped is a distant second to the trauma they faced having survivied the rape. Of course many of these women abandoned their child. Who was there to help them? Who comforted them at their time of need? Raped, pregnant and facing a life of ridicule and blame these women were forced to make a very difficult decision. I cannot imagine the fear, confusion and rage they must have experienced knowing the child they carried was a product of repeated and violent rape. Some of these women chose to have an abortion, some chose to abandon their babies and, others chose to have them. Each did what they had to do to survive. I praise them all for their courage and strength and pray they someday find the peace they deserve.
God bless them!

It is such a pity that the documentary was so short. Also, 20 minute long story shouldn’t have been interrupted by the commercials.

I was deep moved by the story of these women and their children. I cannot imagine the hell they have gone through. Surviving such a horrific ordeal and facing years of emmotional trauma reliving the event is unimaginable. But to also have to endure the ridicule and blame of your own peole is outrageous. My heart goes out to all of them. To me, they are heroes. May they all find the peace they deserve.

I didn't know this before I saw the report and I felt sorry for all the women involved.
I can't imagine what they have gone throgh in this years, it's unbelievable that such horrofic things happened just 10 years ago.

While I was watching this film, I couln't stop thinking how cruel the war is. Due to this report, I could found not only the soldiers were suffering terrible life but also the womens and children were being in miserable life. Also it reminds me the simliar case which is about Korean military sexsual slave during World War II.
I wish those victims of war could live peacefully for their rest of life.

I am glad that CNN has paid attention to this important issue. It's a pity though that this documentary does not mention the Bosnian feature film "Grbavica" (2006), written and directed by the Bosnian Jasmila Zbanic. This film treats exactly the same issue - how to tell your own daughter that she was conceived in an act of rape by a Serbian soldier during the war.

A must see film - won the Golden Bear at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival.

as a Muslim my heart goes out to my
sisters in Bosnia , in so many things
we miss understand our religion . too
many confuse their culture with the religion , i have even heard a sister from the region even go so far as to say saing that once a muslim sister is raped she has to kill her self , while Islam is far far from this rather What Islam really tteaches as 'Abdul-'Azeez ibn 'Abdullaah ibn Baaz said when he was ask about this particular topic about the children of the women who were raped in Bosnia and Herzegovina then it is obligatory upon the Muslims to take charge/custody of them and bring them up with Islaamic manners, and not leave them for the Christians and other than them, as Allaah (Subhaanahu wa Ta'aala) says:

{The believers, men and women, are Awliyaa. (helpers, supporters, friends, protectors) of one another...}, [Soorah at-Towbah, Aayah 71]

and He (sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) said:

((The Muslims in their mutual love, kindness and compassion, are like the human body where when one of its part is in agony the entire body feels the pain both in sleepness and fever)), [al-Bukhaaree and Muslim]

...as their ruling is that of orphans (without fathers), and Allaah has legislated kindness and charity to the orphans specifically.

I ask Allaah for you and for all the Muslims that he facilitates the affairs and guides to all that is good.