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Human Rights Violation and Chronic Symptoms of PTSD 　　Received 16 November 2014； accepted 24 January 2015 　　Published online 26 February 2015 　　Abstract 　　The protection of human rights is problematic and almost universally broken during war， especially against civilians. The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Geneva Convention 1949 define the essential rules and principles that apply in times of war and seek to protect people who are not or are no longer taking part in the hostilities. The study reported in this article was conducted among 54 patients who had survived war in the Balkans， either as the prisoners-of-war or civilians， who had reported the various types of the human rights violation during the war that caused development of chronic PTSD. 　　The experience of war-trauma causes a form of one’s consciousness and experience of the self that is broken， limited， adualistically irrupted， and dysfunctional. Such chronic condition blocks the victims’ posttraumatic growth and leads the traumatised self into isolation from both the inner and the outer world. 　　Key words： Human rights； POW； Chronic PTSD； Torture； Posttraumatic growth 　　Zepinic， V. （2015）. Human Rights Violation and Chronic Symptoms of PTSD. Canadian Social Science， 11（2）， -0. Available from： http：///index.php/css/article/view/6386 　　DOI： http：///10.3968/6386 　　INTRODUCTION 　　When someone kills a person， he is taken to prison. When someone kills twenty people， he is declared mentally insane. But when someone kills 200，000 people， he is invited to the UN for peace negotiation ?C the joke from Sarajevo， 1992. 　　During the past three decades we have witnessed different types of war in about half of all the countries in the world， affecting several million people， mostly innocent civilians. Whilst impact on people’s mental health due to war experiences cannot cover all catastrophes， numerous observational studies have suggested increasing subsequent rates of war-related mental d