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Topic: Bosnia and Herzegovina

  

Letter to representative of Hague Tribunal (ICTY)

Dear Sir/Madam, I trust and believe that the enclosed documentation will help you understand the roots of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It will provide information of the first instances of the ethnic cleansing, genocide and acts against humanity as well as of the first camps established in that troubled land. The winds of war and the speed of subsequent developments have cast a long pall of oblivion over these tragic events, but the victims and justice demand that these facts see the light of the day. For your convenience, given below is a brief account of the events that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the very beginning of the war: 1 . 26 March 1992, massacre and ethnic cleansing in the village of Sijekovac, Municipality of Bosanski Brod; READ MORE

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