SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, March 3 — Night
raids throughout Bosnia by 500 local police, coordinated with United
Nations police monitors, migration officials and NATO-led peacekeepers,
freed 177 women who had been forced to work as prostitutes in nightclubs
across Bosnia, the United Nations said today.
Most of the women were from Russia, Romania,
Moldova and Ukraine, the United Nations
statement said, calling the operation the most significant action to
date against human trafficking and prostitution.
The raids brought to more than 400 the number of human
trafficking and prostitution victims found in Bosnia in the last two
years.