Word: srebenica
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...monstrous crime committed against persons of a different religion ... in the name of our nation." Serb officials had previously denied that their troops were involved in the Bosnian war. The tape is the first to show that Serb troops - not just Bosnian Serb militia - killed prisoners at Srebenica, Bosnia, where some 8,000 Muslims were murdered. After the tape was shown, 10 Scorpions, including some of the men seen in the clip, were arrested in Serbia on war-crimes charges, in what U.N. war-crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte called a "brilliant operation." Until confronted with this evidence, most Serbs...
...order, a broader search is conducted. Ibrahim Satti, local director of Al-Haramain & Al-Masjed Al-Aqsa (not related to the other Al-Haramain) said his agency's accounts were frozen for no apparent reason, interrupting a project to build schools and dormitories for 300 orphans mainly from the Srebenica massacre. "If we take care of your children," he asked, "is that terrorism?" "I'm not in the business of picking on orphans or widows," said Sylvester. "If the organizations are reputable they need to clean themselves out." Bosnia, of course, is not the only place to have seen...