WAR CRIME RAPE CHARGE IN DOUBT.Byline: Mike Corder Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. War crimes prosecutors have asked an international tribunal to drop a rape charge against a Bosnian Serb accused of murdering more than 16 Muslims in northwestern Bosnia, saying the victim feared reprisals REPRISALS, war. The forcibly taking a thing by one nation which belonged to another, in return or satisfaction for a injury committed by the latter on the former. Vatt. B., 2, ch. 18, s. 342; 1 Bl. Com. ch. 7. 2. . The move Friday, which is sure to be accepted by the court, indicates the tenuousness of the peace in Bosnia and the difficulties prosecutors face in getting witnesses to testify. The trial of Dusan Tadic, a former bar owner accused of committing the murders and rape in and around the Serb-run Omarska prison camp in 1992, will open Tuesday. It is the first international war crimes trial since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials After World War II eleven of the Allied Powers (Australia, Canada, China, France, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States) prosecuted twenty-eight of Japan's top military, political, and diplomatic leaders for an after World War II. Human rights groups say mass rape was used as a weapon by armies in the Bosnian conflict Bosnian conflict (1992–98) Ethnically rooted war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a republic of Yugoslavia with a multiethnic population—44% Bosniac (formerly known as Muslim), 33% Serb, and 17% Croat. during their drives to purge territories of unwanted ethnic groups. The charge against Tadic marked the first time rape was to have been tried as a war crime. |
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