Cousins stand trial over atrocities
10/7/08
Two Bosnian Serb cousins accused of burning some 140 Muslims to death in one of the most notorious campaigns of ethnic cleansing of the 1992-1995 war went on trial today before the UN war crimes court in The Hague. Milan Lukic, 40, and his 47-year-old cousin Sredoje are accused of 21 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, repeated beatings of prisoners and persecution of the Muslim population in and around the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad. “What Milan Lukic and Sredoje Lukic did wasn’t (that of) a band of criminals but was a widespread and systematic attack on the civilian population,” prosecutor Dermot Groome told the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
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