BOSNIAN COURTS TO HANDLE 20.000 REQUESTS FOR WAR CRIMES PROCEEDINGS BY THE END OF THE YEAR

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (November 1,2007) – By the end of the year,the Bosnian courts will have to handle 20.000 war crimes proceedings requests made by the Bosnian Association of Concentration Camps Survivors, Murat Tahirovic, the Association President announced.

For the time being, team of lawyers has submitted over 8.2000 proceeding demands to the Bosnian courts.

Tahirovic said that 3.000 proceeding demands are in preparation and other 9.000 will be submitted to the courts in the following two months.

The concentration camps survivors ask 300 euros each for every day spent at the concentration camps. There have been also some demands submitted by families of killed and missing concentration camp prisoners.

The Bosnian Association of Concentration Camp Survivors has about 56.000 members.

“We expect about 80 per cent of them to file complaints. That is over 40.000 people. If we take into consideration that most of the families of killed and missing concentration camps’ prisoners will do the same, than the number of demands will rise to about 60.000”, Tahirovic said.