ZAGREB, Nov 29 (Hina) - The Hague-based UN tribunal on Friday sentenced a Bosnian Serb, Mitar Vasiljevic, to 20 years in prison for war crimes he committed while persecuting the Muslim population in the eastern area of Visegrad in
1992, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) reported.
ZAGREB, Nov 29 (Hina) - The Hague-based UN tribunal on Friday
sentenced a Bosnian Serb, Mitar Vasiljevic, to 20 years in prison
for war crimes he committed while persecuting the Muslim population
in the eastern area of Visegrad in 1992, the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) reported. #L#
Vasiljevic was found guilty on counts of killing a group of Muslim
prisoners by the Drina River in June 1992. He had been indicted for
participation in a horrendous crime of burning alive 70 Muslim
women, children and old people, locked in one house, but this count
was later dropped when the indcitee's alibi was accepted.
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