Bosnian
Serbs told to pay for mosque destruction
February 20, 2009 11:57 AM
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina-A court has ordered the Bosnian Serb
government to pay €33 million ($41.8 million) compensation to the
organization representing Bosnia's Muslims for the wartime destruction
of Islamic shrines in Banja Luka.
Friday's judgment at the Banja Luka court comes nine years after the
Bosnian Islamic Community sued the Bosnian Serb government and Banja Luka
city authorities over the destruction of 16 mosques and other Islamic shrines
in 1993.
During the 1992-95 war, Bosnian Serbs blew up mosques and other Islamic
objects. The Islamic Community says over 1,000 of its objects were destroyed
or damaged.
Since the war, Bosnia has been divided into two ministates, a Bosnian
Serb republic and a federation of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats.
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