Bosnia's war crimes court marks 10th anniversary

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AP Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Last Updated : Mar 09 2015 | 9:32 PM IST
Bosnia's war crimes court has marked a decade since its establishment with a public pledge to continue hunting down and prosecuting people suspected of crimes during the country's 1992-95 war.
Since its inception, the court has prosecuted 453 people accused of genocide, torture, rape and other war crimes, securing convictions in more than 80 per cent of cases, it said in a statement issued on the anniversary today.
The war claimed some 100,000 lives and forced more than half of the 4.4 million Bosnians to flee their homes.
Bosnia's court was established to relieve the caseload of The Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia. Unlike The Hague Tribunal, which is winding down, it does not have a time limit for dealing with its estimated 1,200 cases involving some 8,000 suspects.
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First Published: Mar 09 2015 | 9:32 PM IST

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