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Vilina Vlas was a rape camp active during the Bosnian War.It served as one of the main detention facilities where Bosniak civilian prisoners were beaten, tortured and murdered and women were raped by prison guards during the Višegrad massacres in the Bosnian War of the 1990s.
Serbian women and girls were raped and tortured in Bosniak-run brothels in Sarajevo. [60] In Doboj, Bosnian Serb forces separated the females from the men and then facilitated the rape of some women by their own male family members. Women were questioned about male relatives in the city, and one woman's fourteen-year-old son was forced to rape her.
A total of 66 women have been killed by partners or husbands since 2000 in Kosovo, a nation of 2 million, while only one perpetrator has been sentenced to life in prison, official statistics show.
If a narrow definition of genocide is used, as favoured by the international courts, then during the Srebrenica massacre, 8000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered and the remainder of the population (between 25 000 and 30 000 Bosniak women, children and elderly people) was forced to leave the area. If a wider definition is used, then the ...
He placed severe restrictions on the amount of water which could be drunk by detainees, despite there being no shortage of water available. He also violently raped two women in the camp. [37] Landžo was found guilty on 17 counts and sentenced to 15 years in prison on the basis of his individual responsibility. [38] [39]
The decision by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic brings to an end the longest-running war crimes prosecution ...
The ordeal began on a September morning in 2019 when she said she drove four hours to visit her husband, Carlos Eugene Cardenas, who is in prison in Tehachapi for armed robbery.
The forcible transfer and abuse of between 25,000 and 30,000 Bosniak Muslim women, children and elderly, when accompanied by the massacre of the men, was found to constitute genocide. [26] [27] In 2002, the government of the Netherlands resigned, citing its inability to prevent the massacre. In 2013, 2014 and 2019, the Dutch state was found ...