Prosecutors in Milan have launched a probe into "very wealthy Italians with a passion for weapons" allegedly paying huge sums of money to travel to Bosnia during the 1992-1995 siege of Sarajevo to kill civilians, according to reports.

The armed conflict, considered to be the most violent in Europe after the Second World War, began in early 1992 after the newly-independent Bosnia and Herzegovina received international recognition as a Republic.

The Bosnian Serbs, however, rejected the outcome and forces led by genocide convict, Radovan Karadzic, marched into Sarajevo and in the following months, took control of majority of the country.

Until 1995, when the war ended, the Bosnian Serbs conducted alleged ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Bosniaks, who made up for 44 per cent of the total popu

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