US moves to deport 150 Bosnians for war crimes against Muslims: Report
US immigration officials are moving to deport scores of Bosnians who fled to the United States in the 1990s, concealing their involvement in war crimes and ethnic cleansing against Muslims in the former Yugoslavia, according to a report.
Authorities have identified 300 Bosnians who concealed their past upon arriving in the United States as refugees, the New York Times reports. That number could rise to over 600, officials said.
Immigration officials are preparing to deport at least 150 of them, the Times reports.
Among those who are facing possible deportation are a soccer coach in Virginia, a metalworker in Ohio and four casino employees in Las Vegas.
They are suspected of having taken part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim males, Europe's worst act of genocide since World War II.
The deportation effort was prompted by the 2004 arrest of a Bosnian construction worker in Boston who was later convicted of crimes against humanity.
The arrest caused US officials to suspect that many Bosnians living in the US today might have ties to war crimes committed by ethnic Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War.
On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces overran Srebrenica, separated women and children from men, and then systematically murdered the men in mass executions. Mass graves were later found in the area.
The Bosnian War led to the death of at least 100,000 people and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of others, many of them women and children.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Court of Justice both classified the Srebrenica massacre as genocide respectively in 2004 and 2007.
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