Bosnia war ‘evoked horrors of World War II’

THE “unimaginable” rapes, killings and camps of the 1992-5 Bosnian war evoked the horrors of World War II, former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright told the UN war crimes tribunal yesterday.

Bosnia war ‘evoked horrors of World War II’

At a landmark hearing to determine sentence for ex-Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic, Albright the most senior US official ever to testify at The Hague described her horror as she learned of ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs in the Bosnian war.

"It was unimaginable that these kinds of things could be going on and that they were being done ... in a deliberate way, not some accident of a drunken soldier marauding, but part of some kind of plan to eradicate various groups of people," Ms Albright said as Plavsic listened intently from the dock.

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