The FBI website reports on the FBI's investigation of human rights violators:
Five
years ago, nearly a dozen former soldiers who served during the Bosnian civil
war in the early ‘90s before settling in Arizona were sentenced for lying on
their applications for refugee status when they came to the U.S. Last year, a
Bosnian-born Minnesota man was arrested on fraud charges for not disclosing
crimes—including murder, kidnapping, and robbery—he allegedly committed during
his military service in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In January, a Bosnian-born Vermont
man was found guilty of lying to get into the U.S. and obtain his naturalized
citizenship.
These
cases illustrate efforts across multiple agencies and international borders to
hold accountable any individuals who committed war crimes or atrocities overseas
before entering and settling in the U.S. And Bosnian war criminals represent
just a sampling of the subjects being sought. The U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is pursuing more than
1,900 leads and cases on individuals from about 96 countries. The FBI, which
works alongside HSI and special prosecutors at the Human Rights Violators and
War Crimes Center in Northern Virginia, has pending investigations in nearly a
third of our 56 field offices.
Managing
the FBI’s role in identifying, locating, and investigating these cases is the
Bureau’s International Human Rights Unit (IHRU), which works closely with
partner intelligence agencies and the Department of State to identify subjects
and gather leads. Agents in the unit then coordinate the FBI’s approach in the
field—whether it’s collecting intelligence, developing sources, or just meeting
leaders in diaspora communities to make them aware that the FBI is seeking tips
on the whereabouts of suspected war criminals and human rights
violators.
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