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v. t. e. During the Partition of India, violence against women occurred extensively. [1] It is estimated that during the partition between 75,000 [2] and 100,000 [3] women were kidnapped and raped. [4] The rape of women by men during this period is well documented, [5] with women sometimes also being complicit in these attacks.
By 2011, it had indicted 161 people from all ethnic backgrounds for war crimes, and heard evidence from over 4,000 witnesses. 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.
1 August 1991-May 1992. Dalj. 135. SAO Krajina forces, TO units and Serbian Volunteer Guard members massacre Croatian police and ZNG POWs, Croat and Hungarian civilians. Sarvaš massacre. 2 August 1991. Sarvaš. 9. Croatian police and ZNG forces massacre 9 Serb civilians after attacking the village.
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.
According to the National Crime Records Bureau of India, reported incidents of crime against women increased by 15.3% in 2021 compared to the year 2020. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, in 2011, there were more than 228,650 reported incidents of crime against women, while in 2021, there were 428,278 reported incidents, an 87% ...
Račak massacre (or "Operation Račak") on 15 January 1999 – 45 Albanians were rounded up and killed by Serbian special forces. The first forensic report, by a joint Yugoslavian and Belarusian team, concluded that those killed were not civilians. The massacre provoked a shift in Western policy towards the war.
26 March 1992. Sijekovac, near Bosanski Brod. 20 [1] –47 [2] –59 [3] Bosniak and Croat military units clashed with Bosnian Serb soldiers and murdered civilians. Republika Srpska reported 47 killed, but 59 bodies were later found, including 18 children, all ethnic Serbs. [3] Helsinki Watch reported that 20 were killed in March 1992, while ...
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.