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SARAJEVO, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The death toll from Bosnia's 1992-95 war, widely estimated at at least 200,000, was less than 150,000, a leading war crimes researcher said on Friday. In an interview with Reuters, Mirsad Tokaca said his team had completed 80 percent of the work to establish the exact number of Muslims, Serbs and Croats killed in the conflict, which became known as a war of "ethnic cleansing". About 70 percent of victims were Muslims, Tokaca said, rebutting internet rumours that his Investigation and Documentation Centre would show the toll was about the same on all three sides....

The number of people killed in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina was around 102,000, according to research done by the International Criminal Tribunalfor the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). This is half of earlier estimates. The most common and most widely used number of killed persons in the Bosnia war has been around 200,000. But research shows that this number is too high. Researchers at the court estimate the correct number to be a bit over 102,000. This number deviates somewhat from a documentation project going on in Bosnia, and project leader Mirsad Tokaca concludes that the number of killed was between 130,000...