Prison Camps Reportedly Remain
As many as 135 detention camps remain in Yugoslavia and the former Yugoslav republics, five months after Serbian officials agreed to shut down a network of the camps established during the wars in the Balkans, the New York Times reported today.
The newspaper, quoting U.S. intelligence reports, said that up to 70,000 prisoners are being held in the camps--a figure many times higher than international observers have counted--which are being run by the three main warring factions, Serbs, Muslims and Croats, in the former Yugoslavia.
Serbs control most of the camps, the newspaper said. It said intelligence reports that camps exist not only in Bosnia-Herzegovina but also in Serbia suggest Belgrade may be more involved in holding and transferring prisoners than it has said.
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