posted on Jan, 17 2005 @ 10:04 AM
Two former Serb officers, accused of war crimes have been convicted and jailed for their role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre were 7,000 + males were
murdered in a little over a week.
news.bbc.co.uk
Two former Bosnian Serb officers have been convicted and jailed for their role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
Vidoje Blagojevic was found guilty of "complicity in genocide" and jailed for 18 years by the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The
Hague.
Dragan Jokic was convicted of aiding and abetting murder and persecution and given a nine-year prison sentence.
More than 7,000 Muslims died in the eastern Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica at the end of the 1992-1995 war.
It is considered to be the worst single atrocity in Europe since World War II.
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This leaves a further six still at large including the Serb General Ratko Mladic and the ex-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.
Prior to this General Radislav Krstic has been sentenced to 36 years, after initially receiving 46 years, appealing he stated the the 'numbers were
too low' to be genocide.
The Bosnian Serb Republic has been harshly criticised for failing to arrest a single war crimes suspect and is widely suspected of harbouring them.