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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Alex Croft

Member of US Congress vows to find Americans who participated in ‘human safari’ in besieged Sarajevo

A US congresswoman has promised to track down rich Americans accused of paying huge sums of money to shoot at civilians during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s.

Public prosecutors in Milan are looking into allegations that far-right extremists and gun enthusiasts from Italy, the US and Russia travelled to Serbia to take part in “war tourism”, where they paid Serbian forces to let them fire at residents in the city.

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