'I was born through rape in a war-zone - when I met my mother I saw my face in hers'

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'I was born through rape in a war-zone - when I met my mother I saw my face in hers'

Monday 28th July 2025, 6:00AM

Sexual violence is a terrible inevitability of any war-zone. Lejla Damon was born of rape during the Bosnian war. She speaks to the Mirror about finding her birth mother and discovering her roots

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