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UN war crimes tribunal sentenced two Bosnian Serbs to 18 and 9 years in jail

ZAGREB, Jan 17 (Hina) - The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunalfor the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday sentenced former BosnianSerb officers Vidoje Blagojevic and Dragan Jokic to 18 and nine yearsin prison respectively for the massacre of over 7,000 Bosnian Muslimsin the eastern town of Srebrenica in the summer of 1995.
ZAGREB, Jan 17 (Hina) - The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday sentenced former Bosnian Serb officers Vidoje Blagojevic and Dragan Jokic to 18 and nine years in prison respectively for the massacre of over 7,000 Bosnian Muslims in the eastern town of Srebrenica in the summer of 1995.

Blagojevic, who was the commander of the Bratunac Brigade and held the rank of colonel at the time when the crimes were committed, is charged with six counts -- complicity to commit genocide; extermination, a crime against humanity; murder, as a crime against humanity and as a violation of the laws or customs of war; persecutions, a crime against humanity; and finally, inhumane acts (forcible transfer), a crime against humanity.

In July 1995, Jokic was the chief of engineering of the Zvornik Brigade and held the rank of major. He is charged with four counts including murder as a crime against humanity and as a violation of the laws or customs of war punishable under Article 3 of the Statute; and persecutions, a crime against humanity, according to a press release issued by the ICTY on its web site.

The trial of the two Bosnian Serb officers lasted from 14 May 2003 to mid-July 2004.

Blagojevic was nabbed by the NATO-led Stabilisation Force in Bosnia in August 2001. Jokic turned himself in to the police five days later.

According the the ICTY press release, in this case "the horrible crimes committed following the fall of Srebrenica are well-known: the mass-murder of more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys, and the forcible transfer of the Bosnian Muslim women, children and elderly from this part of eastern Bosnia. These crimes were committed with a level of brutality and depravity not previously seen in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and are among the darkest days in modern European history."

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