At the beginning of the war, Rahima was expelled from her home in the eastern Bosnia town of Foca and made her way to Vitez, in central Bosnia. When the Croat HVO army attacked Vitez, she was raped. She managed to arrive at the Tetovo Collective Center in Zenica in 1995. Her 15-year-old son, who accompanied her, is now sick.

"I have no bed, spoon, plate, nothing. They forced me to live with my daughter and her husband. They are a separate family. Tomorrow they are leaving the camp. They don't want to take me or my son with them. They won't take me to another camp either. Here I have nothing. I don't have any money. If they do take me back to the Polovici camp, I will die. I am a sick woman. My son and his wife are in a village close to Zenica -- in a Croat family's house. Three families live in that house already. I don't know what to do. I have no medicine. No one has listened to me. No one gives a damn that you have lost a member of your family." Rahima's husband is presumed dead.

The priorities of women like Rahima are shelter, psychosocial care for rape trauma, agricultural support kits, and training for employment. After four years of suffering many don't have tears anymore. We had an endless supply, but it is the one thing that we had that wouldn't do Rahima much good.

She told us, "We are a simple people and suffering a lot. Still there is no one who will help us. I am not a nationalist, just speaking on behalf of all people. Everyone is suffering. I wish this senselessness would stop."