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Not all wartime killing amounts to genocide, and both sides have fought viciously. Rival paramilitary groups have terrorized and expelled civilians when seizing new territory by force. Each side maintains prisons and detention camps, has destroyed religious monuments, and discriminates against adversaries of different ethnic groups.
The genocide convention is inapplicable to the undeniable suffering which exists in Bosnia, because soldiers lack the requisite intent to exterminate people of different ethnicity. The combatant's intent is to seize territory. The Genocide Convention does not apply to forcible deportation from captured towns, a traditional spoil of war.
