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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]
Calling the Ghosts: A Story about Rape, War and Women is a 1997 documentary film that details the experience of Nusreta Sivac and Jadranka Cigelj at the Bosnian Serb-run Omarska camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War. [1]
Learn about the 1995 genocide of Bosniak Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the Bosnian War. Find out the background, causes, events, consequences and legal implications of the worst crime in Europe since World War II.
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.
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]
Learn about the history, culture, and challenges of women in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society. Find out how women participated in the war, politics, economy, and society after the Bosnian War (1992-1995).
Mass murder and violence committed against Bosniaks and other non-Serb civilians by Serb paramilitary groups. [27] Snagovo massacre: 29 April 1992 Snagovo: VRS: Bosniaks: 36 Serb forces capture and kill 36 Bosniak civilians who were hiding in the woods. The corpses were burned in an effort to conceal the crime. [28] Višegrad massacres: April ...
The following is a list of massacres and mass executions that occurred in Yugoslavia during World War II. Areas once part of Yugoslavia that are now parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, and Montenegro; see the lists of massacres in those countries for more details.