‘Sniper tourists’: Wealthy clients paid £70,000 to hunt civilians in twisted ‘human safaris’. Only after 30 years, a probe begins

The siege of Sarajevo was already one of the darkest chapters in 1990s Bosnia and Herzegovina. Now, prosecutors say some rich foreigners allegedly treated it like a “human safari,” paying tens of thousands of pounds to become Sniper tourists.

Italian prosecutors in Milan have opened a criminal investigation into allegations that wealthy foreigners killed innocent civilians during the 1992–1996 siege of Sarajevo. These “tourists” paid Bosnian Serb forces the modern-day equivalent of roughly £70,000–£85,000 for weekend trips to allegedly shoot civilians. The amount sometimes reached $115,000. (via The Independent).