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Bosnia jails first female war crime convict
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May 1, 2012
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A court in Bosnia has jailed the nation's first female war crimes
convict. Rasema Handanović, 39, admitted six killings in the village of
Trusina in 1993.

Only one other woman has been convicted of crimes relating to the 1992-5
conflict in Bosnia, Bosnian Serb ex-president Biljana Plavšić.
Plavšić was jailed for eleven years by an international court in The
Hague, Netherlands in 2003 and later released.

Judge Jasmina Kosović noted mitigating conditions for Handanović: She
had expressed remorse for the victims, she had co-operated and given
testimony for use against others in the attack, she was a war rape
victim, and she had lost family in the fighting. Handanović received a
five-and-one-half-years prison sentence yesterday.

Kosović noted the convict "participated with other members of her unit
in the executions of three civilians and three soldiers".

Handanović, now a United States citizen whom Bosnia extradited, was
part of a firing squad. The Trusina incident ultimately left eighteen
civlians and four prisoners of war dead. She provided evidence against
six other members of ''Zulfikar'', a special unit within the Bosnian and
Herzegovinan Army. Handanović had earlier struck a plea bargain.

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== Sources == 

* http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/30/bosnian-woman-jailed-wartime-murders?newsfeed=true
* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/bosnia/9236085/Muslim-becomes-first-woman-to-be-convicted-of-Bosnian-war-crimes.html
* http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/30/uk-bosnia-warcrimes-idUKBRE83T0KU20120430