THE HAGUE, April 3 (Hina) - The Appeals Chamber of the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday reduced a prison term for former Bosnian Serb deputy prime minister Radoslav Brdjanin by
two years, sentencing him to 30 years' imprisonment for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992.
THE HAGUE, April 3 (Hina) - The Appeals Chamber of the Hague-based
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday
reduced a prison term for former Bosnian Serb deputy prime minister Radoslav
Brdjanin by two years, sentencing him to 30 years' imprisonment for crimes
against humanity and war crimes committed in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992. On September 1, 2004 the Trial Chamber sentenced him to 32 years in prison
after finding that he had played a leading role in coordinating an ethnic
cleansing campaign against Bosnian Muslims and Croats in the Serb-proclaimed
Autonomous Region of Krajina in northwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Brdjanin, 59, an engineer by vocation, was found individually
responsible on eight out of 12 counts of the indictment, including persecutions
on religious, political and racial grounds, which qualify as crimes against
humanity, but was acquitted of charges of genocide, complicity in genocide,
extermination, and wanton destruction and seizure of property.