Several dozen women peacefully demanded guarantees that Lukic would also be tried for what they said had been mass and systematic rapes which additionally incited ethnic cleansing in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A trial chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia recently dropped parts of the indictment against Lukic, including allegations of numerous rapes of Muslim women in the Visegrad area.
The president of the "Women - War Victims" association, Bakira Hasecic, told the press the dropping of those charges meant the UN Security Council had influenced the ICTY to make it close its doors sooner, and that Lukic would be tried only for the crimes he was personally responsible for, while the violence against hundreds of women would go unpunished.
The association also demanded additional guarantees that the ICTY would not close its doors before Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic were arrested, and that the Office of the High Representative would not be closed down either, as announced for next year.