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Article: Jews join coalition to bring Bosnian war criminals to justice

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July 16, 1997
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
07-16-1997
Jews join coalition to bring Bosnian war criminals to justice

By Matthew Dorf

WASHINGTON, July 15 (JTA) -- It was December 1992 when Jewish activists gathered across from the site of the future Holocaust museum for the first of many calls for U.S. intervention in Bosnia.

Eyewitnesses were coming forward with stories of war crimes, mass murders and systematic rapes in the war-torn former Yugoslavia.

This week, a coalition of groups, including 19 Jewish organizations, again gathered on the lawn across from the now- completed U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, this time to call for the arrest of Bosnian war criminals.

The two events could not have been more ...

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