Word: celebici
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...three Muslims and one Croat is the first collective war crimes trial since the end of World War II and the first to judge rape as a war crime. Seventy-six witnesses will make the trip from Yugoslavia to testify before the U.N. tribunal about conditions in the Celebici concentration camp, set up by Muslim authorities at the beginning of the Bosnian war as a detention center for Serb prisoners. Fourteen inmates are thought to have died in the camp, including one man who had a Muslim party logo nailed to his head. The indictment charges that, aside from various...
...they can with what little resources and information they have." Zejnil Delalic, a former Bosnian government army officer, was indicted for allowing guards under his authority to murder, rape and torture prisoners at Celebeci camp in central Bosnia in 1992. Zdravko Mucic, a Croat and the commander of the Celebici camp, was indicted along with Hazim Delic, deputy commander at the camp, for murders allegedly committed by their subordinates. Also charged was Esad Landzo, a guard at Celebici camp, for murder. Michaels reports that the work of the tribunal is exceedingly difficult. "We are waging peace with those who have...
Ljubomir S., 21, is a Serb from the village of Brdjani. He was one of several hundred men imprisoned by Muslim militiamen in a military barracks at Celebici in June 1992. "We were beaten regularly," he told interviewers from Human Rights Watch/Helsinki. "A young soldier nicknamed Zenga beat us. They killed a man named Corba. They brought in a chair, on which he had to sit. They then shot him in front of his brother and me. This guy Zenga pulled the trigger...
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