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On 20 July 2009 Milan and Sredoje Lukić were sentenced to life in prison and 30 years imprisonment respectively, for crimes that included the Bikavac fire and the murder of 59 Bosniak civilians in the Pionirska Street fire on 14 June 1992, which occurred after the civilians were locked into one room of a house that was then set on fire.
After men aged 18 to 60 were separated from the other villagers and killed or shipped off to internment camps, the women and children were either sent to an internment camp or bussed to government-held frontlines near Travnik in central Bosnia. Then the remaining homes were destroyed by bulldozers, explosives or fire.
On 21 August 1992, a large group of about 1,200 civilian detainees released from the Bosnian Serb-run Trnopolje camp were being transported to Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina-controlled territory in central Bosnia. After the convoy reached Mount Vlašić, about 200–250 men were selected and separated from the main group by a group of ...
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The "Kravica" case was an important trial before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina; 11 men were accused of genocide. [273] In July 2008, after a two-year trial, the court found seven of them guilty of genocide for their role in Srebrenica, including the deaths of 1000 Bosniak men in a single day.
The government of Bosnia-Herzegovina charged Fikret Abdić with the deaths of 121 civilians, three POWs and the wounding of 400 civilians in the Bihać region. [36] Croatian authorities arrested him and put him on trial. In 2002, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for war crimes committed in the area of the "Bihać pocket". [37]
Now, as the country goes from one crisis to another, the three veterans feel it is their duty to warn of the horrors of war. Rizo Salkic "Talijan", Marko Zelic and Boro Jevtic, the Bosniak, Croat ...
The world must learn from the mistakes made after the war in Bosnia to avoid putting Ukrainian victims of rape and conflict-related sexual violence through decades of trauma, a new expert report ...