Although they were sentenced for the gravest of crimes, including war crimes, the law allows convicts to become citizens with no previous convictions after they have served their imprisonment sentences.
Participants at a meeting between OSCE representatives and associations of detainees and families of killed and missing persons from Brcko District pointed out that the processing of war criminals in that area was at a very low level.
While war-crime victims recall women as carrying out some of the vilest deeds in the whole of the Bosnian war, the courts seem curiously relucant to act.