What happened to her was that former neighbours killed her 14 year-old son, her husband, her father and two other male members of her family in front of her eyes. The expert analysed the sample collected from the burnt remains of one Ahmici house. Five years after the crime, he found no trace of incendiary devices in the sample submitted to him, but did not exclude the possibility that they may have been used and that their traces had vanished with time. The prosecution and the Ahmici witnesses claim that the HVO soldiers carried bottles and pails of liquid which they threw over furniture before setting houses on fire. The project seeks to contribute to regional and international understanding of the war-crimes prosecution process.
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