Archive for June, 2008
UN sued over 8,000 deaths in Srebrenica genocide
By Harry de Quetteville in the Hague
Thursday June 19 2008
RELATIVES of thousands of Bosnian Muslims killed in Europe’s worst post-war atrocity began a court case yesterday in which they are claiming €2.6bn in damages from the United Nations and the Dutch government over the deaths.
More than [...]
Hearings begin on whether Srebrenica victims can sue United Nations
The Hague – A Dutch court began hearings Wednesday to decide whether the surviving family members of the victims of a 1995 massacre of Muslims in Bosnia could sue the United Nations for failing to prevent the killings. Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Muslims in one week in July 1995, overrunning the Srebrenica enclave [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Nearly 100 Srebrenica victims exhumed in eastern Bosnia
Sarajevo – Bosnian forensic experts Wednesday completed excavation of a mass grave at Zeleni Jadar near the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, the Commission on Missing Persons confirmed. Murat Hurtic of the commission said six complete and 90 incomplete bodies were exhumed from the grave.
The exhumed remains, he said, were of the victims of the [...]
Bosnians hold Srebrenica massacre suspect
Sarajevo – A former Bosnian Serb policeman suspected of helping in the wartime massacre of thousands of Muslims at Srebrenica was detained Tuesday, nearly 13 years later, prosecutors said. Zoran Tomic, 37, was taken into custody near the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik under suspicion of genocide during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Prosecutor’s Office [...]
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