Samo prijavljeni korisnici mogu pregledati cijeli sadržaj.
HR-BULLETINS-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4073 BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4073HINA Zagreb 2 August 2001ICTY SENTENCES BOSNIAN SERB GENERAL TO 46 YEARS IN PRISONTHE HAGUE, Aug 2 (Hina) - The Hague-based
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday sentenced Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic to 46 years in prison for the massacre and persecution of thousands of Srebrenica Muslims between July 10 and 19, 1995. Krstic was found guilty of genocide, and the persecution and killing of Muslim civilians. This was the first ICTY conviction of genocide. General Krstic (53) sat calm as the Portuguese Judge Almiro Rodrigues, who presided over the trial chamber, read the sentence. The trial chamber established that the initial plan of ethnic cleansing after the fall of the UN-protected Srebrenica area in eastern Bosnia turned into a plan for the extermination of the local population - genocide. Explaining the harsh sentence, Judge Rodrigues s