Over 100 Bosnians to be deported from the US over 90s war crimes – report

Published time: March 01, 2015 10:58

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Bosnian Serb soldiers run for cover during an operation near the northern Bosnian town of Brcko on the corridor connecting northern Bosnia with Serbia May 23, 1993. (Reuters)

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US authorities reportedly plan to deport at least 150 Bosnians suspected of committing atrocities during the Bosnian War of 1992-95. Some are accused of participating in the mass executions in Srebrenica in 1995.
Hundreds of Bosnians are under investigation in the US because of their questionable past and possible involvement in war in Europe two decades ago, The New York Times reported Saturday.
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After the Bosnian War was over in 1995, 120,000 Bosnian refugees applied for American visas. Though applicants were obliged to disclose military service and other activities of the kind, registers' immigration relied mostly on the “honesty of the applicants,” and did not verify their statements, the report claims.
“All of these people really came into the United States under the radar,” Lara J. Nettelfield, a scholar at Royal Holloway, University of London, and author on Bosnian war crimes, told the NYT. “There really wasn’t much attention given to this problem for years.”
So far 300 immigrants from Bosnia, some of who have already been granted American citizenship, have been caught in a deception about their past. And the number of suspects could rise to 600, officials revealed to the NYT.