UN war crimes court convicts 2 Serbs over Bosnia atrocities
Two former Serbian state security service heads were handed sentences of 12 years apiece on Wednesday by an international tribunal for their role in setting up the paramilitaries behind much of the terror that marked the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
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- Published Date: 09:23 | 30 June 2021
- Modified Date: 09:23 | 30 June 2021
A United Nations court has convicted two former allies of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic of aiding and abetting crimes committed by notorious Serb paramilitaries in a Bosnian town in 1992.
However, the court said Wednesday there was not sufficient evidence to convict them of other crimes in other towns and villages in Bosnia and Croatia as the former Yugoslavia violently disintegrated in the early 1990s.
Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic were convicted of aiding and abetting the crimes of murder, deportation, forcible transfer and persecution in the town of Bosanski Samac and each sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. The judgment can be appealed.
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