During the latter part of the 1980s and throughout the 1990s. our Commission held extensive hearings on the tragedy that has occurred in the former Yugoslavia and most particularly in BosniaHerzegovina. The fact of the matter is that since the 1930s and 1940s there has not been on the European continent the commission of atrocities against human beings based upon their ethnicity. nationality or religion. the kind of genocide. and that word properly applies. that we saw and heard testified to in Bosnia. In fact. as many Members of this House know. more refugees were created in BosniaHerzegovina during the prosecution of the Serbian aggression than at any time since the Second World War. That is to say that in the last half a century we did not have the kinds of crimes that were committed in Bosnia. During the course of testimony before the Helsinki Commission. and I know before the Foreign Affairs Committee as well. we heard of not only the murder of women. children. as well as combatant males and noncombatant males. civilian makes. we also heard of the creation of incarceration camps.
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