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As Serbian forces captured villages, they forcibly expelled Muslim and Croatian inhabitants so they could govern an ethnically pure territory. Serbs held their Muslim captives in camps where systematic torture and rape terrorized the defenseless and prevented future childbearing by Muslim women. At Sebrenicia, an inadequately defended U.N. "safe haven" in a Serbian dominated region, Serbs allegedly massacred 6,000 unarmed Muslim men and boys.
Croation forces, Bosnia's army and Muslim paramilitary groups have terrorized and expelled Serb civilians when seizing new territory by force. Bosnia and Croatia also maintained prisons and detention camps.
