Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war
by Angela Giuffrida in Rome and Kim Willsher in Paris from World news | The Guardian on (#71CZ7)
Groups from Italy and elsewhere alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege
Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for trips to Sarajevo so that they could kill citizens during the four-year siege of the city in the 1990s.
More than 10,000 people were killed in Sarajevo by constant shelling and sniper fire between 1992 and 1996 in what was the longest siege in modern history, after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia.
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