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Serbian Forces Mass Raped Women to Boost Morale and Spread War Propaganda

“Actual rapes of Bosniak and Croatian women by Serbian soldiers, filmed as they happen, have been shown on the evening news in Banja Luka, a Serbian-occupied city in western Bosnia-Herzegovina. The women were presented as Serbian and as being raped … Continue reading

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Victims of Mass Rape in the Bosnian Genocide, Photos and Testimonies

Author: Nina Berman (re-published with permission from the author) I’ve been scanning old pictures from late 1992 and early 1993 of women and girls who were raped in the Bosnian war which means they were personally, brutally, and sadistically attacked, … Continue reading

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Photograph: Blinded Survivor of the 1993 Srebrenica Children Massacre

This is a photograph of a child victim – survivor of the April 1993 Srebrenica Children Massacre. Unfortunately, you cannot see his eyes. Shrapnel from a mortar had swept away this boy’s eyes and blinded him. The boy’s name is … Continue reading

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Hard Time in Serb-run Concentration Camps in Bosnia

Hard Time in Serb-run Concentration Camps in Bosnia CRIME CONTINUED (To mark August 30, International Day of the Disappeared) By Irena Antic Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia Helsinki Charter No. 153-154. 

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Genocide in Ključ: Ethnic Cleansing, Death Camps and Massacres

“They are gone. All of them were killed up there. My five-month old child was wrapped in a blanket and glued to an old man. I recognised my wife by her ring… it was not difficult to identify them,” the witness … Continue reading

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Court: Šešelj’s Serbs Killed Babies & Pregnant Women, Carved Muslim Bodies with Crosses

The prosecutors contend that they have proven the responsibility of the Serbian Radicals’ leader for ‘cruel crimes’ against civilians in Croatia, Vojvodina and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The crimes include the murder of children and newborn babies, pregnant women, the elderly and the … Continue reading

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Sarajevo: Memorial to Khojaly Genocide, Massacre Perpetrated by Armenians

First Genocide in Europe after World War II occurred in Bosnia-Herzegovina during 1992-1995, so it was only natural to erect monument to the victims of Khojali in Sarajevo. The Khojaly Massacre was the killing of hundreds of ethnic Azerbaijani civilians … Continue reading

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KARADZIC: AIM OF WAR WAS TO ANNIHILATE BOSNIAN MUSLIMS

AIM OF WAR IN BOSNIA was to annihilate the Bosnian Muslims. Some of Karadzic’s most incriminating statements were made public, some kept as confidential military directives, while other statements were intercepted by the Bosnian Government during Radovan Karadzic’s telephone conversations. … Continue reading

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Jolie’s “In the Land of Blood and Honey” Film Fair & Balanced

Emotional showing in Sarajevo for Jolie’s war film By Allan Little Sarajevo has just seen the premiere of controversial new film – In the Land of Blood and Honey – a love story set during the Bosnian War. It is … Continue reading

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Threats: Angelina Jolie Target of Serb Terrorism in Bosnia

Angelina Jolie and members of the cast of In the Land of Blood and Honey have received death threats after the film premiered in Sarajevo on Tuesday, Jolie has told Britain’s Guardian newspaper. “There were things sent to me, there … Continue reading

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Serbian Soldier Sentenced to 31 Years for Srebrenica Genocide

SARAJEVO (Tanjug) — The Appeals Chamber of the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina sentenced Radomir Vuković to 31 years in prison for aiding the committing of genocide in Srebrenica. Zoran Tomić was acquitted. The final ruling of the court found Vuković guilty … Continue reading

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Serbian Security Officer: Intention in Srebrenica was to Kill All Boys and Men

BIRN — Continuing his testimony at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Momir Nikolic, former Serb officer with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, says that, two days after the fall of Srebrenica, July 13, 1995, it was known that the captured … Continue reading

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DNA: 160 Victims of Bosnian Genocide from Lake Perucac Identified

SARAJEVO — Identity of 162 victims of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, whose remains were found in Lake Perućac, has been determined. BETA — A preliminary identity of 162 persons, including ten children, has been determined based on DNA profiles, the … Continue reading

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Investigator: Srebrenica Genocide was Systematic Killings Operation

Continuing his cross-examination of the former head of the Srebrenica investigation Jean-Rene Ruez, the accused Karadzic tried to prove that the victims exhumed from mass graves in the Srebrenica area had been soldiers killed in combat, before and in July 1995. … Continue reading

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Dr. Hugland: Victims of Srebrenica Did Not Die as Soldiers in the Battle

In the cross-examination of forensic anthropologist William Haglund, Karadzic tried to prove that most of the victims from the Srebrenica mass graves had died in combat. ‘People do not fight blindfolded’, responded the witness. Haglund dismissed Karadzic’s suggestion that the blindfolds … Continue reading

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Srebrenica: Empty Bullet Casings, Ligatures, Blindfolded Victims, Evidence of Systematic Executions

In his cross-examination of British pathologist John Clark and Guatemalan anthropologist Fredi Peccerelli, Radovan Karadzic argued that the Srebrenica victims had been killed in combat, and not in mass executions. The witnesses didn’t rule this out entirely but added it … Continue reading

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Paris: France Likely to Approve Bosnian Genocide Bill

Bosnia urges Paris on ‘Bosnian genocide bill’ Sarajevo/Paris Anatolia News Agency Hurriyet Daily News Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Parliament will suggest to the French Senate that it approve a bill criminalizing anyone who denies the mass killings of Bosniaks during the … Continue reading

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Years of Hunger and Death in Srebrenica, 1992 – 1995.

SENSE Tribunal – Mirsada Malagic testified today at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. After the fall of the Srebrenica enclave, Malagic’s husband, two sons and several other relatives were killed. Karadzic tried to blame the killings in Srebrenica on the … Continue reading

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Bosnian Police Arrests Serb Woman Known as “Female Monster”

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A Bosnian Serb woman suspected of such brutal crimes against non-Serbs during the 1990s that her victims nicknamed her the “Female Monster” has been detained, police and local media reported Wednesday. It was a rare … Continue reading

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Serb Destruction of the Oriental Institute in Sarajevo

The Oriental Institute in Sarajevo, its premises, research library and complete manuscript collection (more than 2,000 codices and 15,000 other archival material) was deliberately destroyed in shelling on May 18, 1992 by Serbian forces around the besieged city of Sarajevo. … Continue reading

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Srebrenica: “Children Had Their Throats Slit Before Their Mothers’ Eyes”

Top Serbs Charged in Srebrenica Genocide Testimony leads tribunal to issue genocide charges Pacific Stars and Striples 18 Nov 1995, page 2. THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Some Bosniaks played dead under piles of slaughtered bodies to avoid discovery by … Continue reading

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No Early Release for Serb Mass Rapist of Bosniak Women & Girls

Former member of the Bosnian Serb military police Dragan Zelenovic filed a motion for early release after he has served one third of his 15-year prison sentence. Zelenovic pleaded guilty to rape and torture of Bosniak women and girls in … Continue reading

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Turkey Remains Strong Ally of the Bosniak People in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Anniversary of death of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s first president, Alija Izetbegovic, is being commemorated in his country 8 years after his passing. Alija Izetbegovic, ethnic Bosniak, who managed to establish a free Bosnian state despite all difficulties, is considered a ”Father” by … Continue reading

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Dr. Ann Ross: Epidemiology of the Bosnian Genocide

Forensic Science Policy & Management: An International Journal (Volume 2, Issue 2, 2011); “Epidemiology of Genocide: An Example from the Former Yugoslavia,” pages 94-102; DOI:10.1080/19409044.2011.604378; Ashley Maxwell & Ann H. Ross Researchers from North Carolina State University are proposing a health-based approach to identifying … Continue reading

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The West Failed Muslims in Bosnia

No Deliverance for Bosniaks By Leslie Gelb Herald-Journal, p.A8 17 August 1992. Let me be chillingly blunt about what Western officials told me regarding the Balkan crisis. They said that nothing they are doing or plan to do is at … Continue reading

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