The Devil Couldn't Break Me · A True Story
- Authors
- Aslan, Laura
- Publisher
- Acorn Books
- Tags
- torture , laura aslan , abuse of women in conflict , former yugoslavia , kla , angelina jolie , yugoslavia war , rape camps , kosovo war , serbia , croatia , albania , women in conflict , william hague
- ISBN
- 9781785382772
- Date
- 2015-11-10T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.06 MB
- Lang
- en
Laura was just eighteen years of age when she fled her family home on the Serbian Kosovo border at the height of the former Yugoslavian conflict. Her father felt she would be safer in Kosovo, free from the rape camps, massacres and ethnic cleansing that took place on their doorstep, the streets of the capital patrolled by US peacekeeping forces. Reluctantly she made the long journey through the mountains and eventually arrived in Pristina. Neither Laura or her father were aware she had entered a city one US delegate described, "as one vast crime scene." She had no idea what terrors lay ahead, as she crossed the path of 'The Chief', a self professed freedom fighter in the Kosovan Liberation Army. On the face of it The Chief' claimed to be fighting a noble cause. Behind closed doors he was the mastermind of a huge operation dealing in organ harvesting, people trafficking and prostitution and his evil gang raped tortured and killed at will. Laura had stumbled through the gates o...