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- The Chetniks, a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerrilla force, committed numerous war crimes during the Second World War, primarily directed against the non-Serb population of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, mainly Muslims and Croats, and against Communist -led Yugoslav Partisans and their supporters.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetnik_war_crimes_in_World_War_II
Dražen Erdemović, a Bosnian Croat fighting in the Bosnian Serb contingent, and Franko Simatović, an ethnic Croat and high-ranking official of the Yugoslav State Security Service, are the only indictees on this list who crossed either religious and/or ethnic lines.
Milošević faced 66 counts of crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes committed during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. He pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
It had jurisdiction over four clusters of crimes committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991: grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws or customs of war, genocide, and crimes against humanity. The maximum sentence that it could impose was life imprisonment.
Mar 12, 2006 · Milosevic. The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today announced an inquiry into the circumstances of the death Former Yugoslav President Slobodan...
Dec 19, 2017 · Within weeks, the court charged Karadzic and Mladic with genocide and crimes against humanity for their ethnic cleansing of Bosnia and their use of snipers to target civilians in besieged...
Sep 13, 2024 · Bosnian War - War Crimes, Trials, Justice: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) brought charges against individuals from every ethnicity and nationality represented in the conflict, though the most prominent cases were brought against Serb and Bosnian Serb authorities.
Feb 12, 2002 · The prosecutor for a United Nations tribunal today accused Slobodan Milosevic of “medieval savagery” as the trial of the former Yugoslav President – the first head of State to be tried for...
