In Bosnia, A Legal Loophole Lets War Criminals Get Off With Just A Fine globalsecurity.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from globalsecurity.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Uniquely among its neighbors and over the long-running objections of the OSCE, courts in Bosnia-Herzegovina have allowed more than a dozen people convicted of war crimes including rape and torture to buy their way out of prison time.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is meddling in the Balkans with the potential goal of fomenting a second conflict in Eastern Europe to distract the West from his war in Ukraine and Washington should be paying closer attention.