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Introduction. A large number of women were raped during the Bosnian war (1992-1995). Several investigations have shown that these rapes were conducted in a systematic manner as part of the policy of ethnic cleansing. The most commonly cited number of women raped is 20,000.
Slobodan Praljak ( Croatian pronunciation: [slobǒdan prǎːʎak]; 2 January 1945 – 29 November 2017) was a Bosnian Croat war criminal who served in the Croatian Army and the Croatian Defence Council, an army of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, between 1992 and 1995. Praljak was found guilty of committing violations of the laws of war ...
War crime verdict. Dragan Nikolić, the commander of the camp, pleaded guilty to crimes against humanity and was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. Predrag Bastah and Goran Višković were sentenced to 22 years and 18 years of imprisonment, respectively, for their involvement at the Sušica camp. See also. Bosnian Genocide; Dretelj camp
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the ...
Delalić coordinated the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat forces in the Konjic area from approximately April 1992 to September 1992 and then commanded the First Tactical Group of the Bosnian Army until November 1992. This was the ICTY's first indictment for perpetrators of crimes against Bosnian Serbs during the war.
The Doboj ethnic cleansing refers to war crimes, including murder, deportation, persecution and wanton destruction, committed against Bosniaks and Croats in the Doboj area by the Yugoslav People's Army and Serb paramilitary units from May until September 1992 during the Bosnian war. On 26 September 1997, Serb soldier Nikola Jorgić was found ...
The Omarska camp was a concentration camp [2] [3] run by the Army of Republika Srpska in the mining town of Omarska, near Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, set up for Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and Bosnian Croat prisoners during the Prijedor ethnic cleansing. Functioning in the first months of the Bosnian War in 1992, it was one of 677 ...
Early life. Hasečić was born to a Bosniak family in Višegrad, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina close to the border with Serbia. After the onset of the Bosnian War, artillery bombardment of the town led to it falling under the control of the Yugoslav People's Army; after they officially withdrew in May 1992, local Serb leaders established the ...