"This is a case about ethnic cleansing, persecution and genocide," prosecutor Dirk Ryneveld told judges in his opening statement. In their effort to create an ethnically pure Serbian state, prosecutors say Bosnian Serbs worked from a "blueprint for the commission of genocide," killing some civilians and terrorizing those who remained into leaving. They did that, say prosecutors, by attacking and then destroying their villages and, in particular, by detaining the survivors in three now infamous "concentration-style" camps: Omarska, Trnopolje and Keraterm. Prosecutor Dirk Ryneveld told judges the court will hear from some of the camps' survivors. Full Story...
Bosnian Serb 'Concentration' Camp Commanders on Trial
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Prosecutors at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal opened their case against three
Bosnian Serb camp commanders by saying they played a role in a larger
"genocidal" plan to destroy Muslims and Croats. It's alleged that hundreds of
non-Serbs were killed, tortured and raped and thousands were held prisoner in
three camps in northwest Bosnia's Prijedor region in 1992.