TUZLA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Bahira was 14 when she was repeatedly raped by Bosnian Serb soldiers who attacked her Muslim village early in Bosnia's 1990s war. She barely escaped execution, and has spent the past two decades trying to overcome her trauma.
Then, on her birthday last year, she received a court fine amounting to six months' worth of disability benefits that she lives on. She had to pay court fees for a war reparations claim that she had actually abandoned years ago.
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