THE HAGUE, Feb 26 (Hina) - The Hague-based war crimes tribunal on Monday sentenced the former deputy president of the Croat Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia Dario Kordic to 25 years, and the former commander of the Vitez Brigade, Mario
Cerkez, to 15 years in prison. Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) two months ago requested life imprisonment for Kordic, 40, and Cerkez, 41, indicted of the systematic persecution of Moslems during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The gravest crime they have been found of is their responsibility for the killing of over a hundred Moslem civilians in the village of Ahmici (central Bosnia) in 1993. Both Kordic and Cerkes were accused of having individual as well as commanding liability in crimes against humanity, grave breeches of the Geneva conventions and of rights and customs of war.(hina) lml
THE HAGUE, Feb 26 (Hina) - The Hague-based war crimes tribunal on
Monday sentenced the former deputy president of the Croat Republic
of Herzeg-Bosnia Dario Kordic to 25 years, and the former commander
of the Vitez Brigade, Mario Cerkez, to 15 years in prison.
Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) two months ago requested life imprisonment for
Kordic, 40, and Cerkez, 41, indicted of the systematic persecution
of Moslems during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The gravest crime they have been found of is their responsibility
for the killing of over a hundred Moslem civilians in the village of
Ahmici (central Bosnia) in 1993.
Both Kordic and Cerkes were accused of having individual as well as
commanding liability in crimes against humanity, grave breeches of
the Geneva conventions and of rights and customs of war.
(hina) lml