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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bosnian Serb 'Concentration' Camp Commanders on Trial | 3/20/2001 | See Source »

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