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Violence against women related to modesty encompasses assaults intended to outrage a woman's modesty and insults to the modesty of women. In the period from 2011 to 2012, there was a 5.5% rise in reported assaults with the intent to outrage her modesty, with Madhya Pradesh contributing 6,655 cases, making up 14.7% of the national incidents. [42]
By 2011, it had indicted 161 people from all ethnic backgrounds for war crimes, [78] and heard evidence from over 4,000 witnesses. [79] In 1993, the ICTY defined rape as a crime against humanity, and also defined rape, sexual slavery, and sexual violence as international crimes which constitute torture and genocide. [80]
After the war, according to a research by Bosnian demographer Murat Prašo, in 1995 Serbs comprised 89%, while Bosniaks made 3% and Croats 1% of the remaining population. [107] In the Bosnian territory held by the HVO and the Croatian Army, before the war, Croats comprised 49% of the population; this percentage rose to 96% in 1996. By the same ...
Genocide. The Bosnian genocide (Bosnian: Bosanski genocid / Босански геноцид) took place during the Bosnian War of 1992–1995 [8] and included both the Srebrenica massacre and the wider crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing campaign perpetrated throughout areas controlled by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS). [9]
Dražen Erdemović, a Bosnian Croat fighting in the Bosnian Serb contingent, and Franko Simatović, an ethnic Croat and high-ranking official of the Yugoslav State Security Service, are the only indictees on this list who crossed either religious and/or ethnic lines. Biljana Plavšić is the sole female ICTY indictee.
Foča ethnic cleansing. 7 April 1992 – January 1994. Foča. VRS. Bosniaks. 2,704. Serb military, police and paramilitary forces kill Bosniak civilians. In a 1997 judgement against Novislav Đajić, the Bavarian Appeals Chamber ruled that the killings in which he was involved in June 1992 were acts of genocide. [10]
Also, the number of raped women in Hungary varies from 50,000 to 500,000 according to different sources. In Austria, between 70,000 and 110,000 women were raped in Vienna alone. [8] Susan Brownsmiller noted that the liberation armies treated women in Serbia better than those in enemy countries. [8]
Serbian war crimes. The following articles deal with Serbian war crimes: Expulsion of the Albanians, 1877–1878. Serbian war crimes in the Balkan Wars. Chetnik war crimes in World War II. Serbian war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars.