Prosecutors in Milan have launched an investigation into Italians accused of paying Bosnian Serb soldiers to shoot civilians during the four-year siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s — one of the darkest chapters of the Bosnian War, The Guardian reported.

More than 10,000 people were killed during the siege, which lasted from 1992 to 1996, making it the longest in modern history. According to the report, the so-called “sniper tourists” allegedly paid large sums to soldiers in the army of Radovan Karadžić — the former Bosnian Serb leader convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity — to be taken to the hills surrounding the city to target civilians for sport.

The probe was triggered by a complaint from Milan-based writer Ezio Gavazzeni, who gathered evidence on the alleged sniper tourists,

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