Sarajevo War Criminal Sentenced
Keith_Indy on Dec 12 2007 at 6:33 pm | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Keith's Page, Military Matters
While this is welcome news, it can hardly be called justice. A just society would have stopped this guy in his tracks, long before 10,000 people were killed during the seige of Sarajevo.
Sphere: Related ContentThe U.N. war crimes tribunal sentenced former Bosnian Serb general Dragomir Milosevic to 33 years imprisonment on Wednesday for the shelling of Sarajevo during the Bosnian war, one of the court’s toughest sentences.
More than 10,000 people were killed in the Muslim-held part of Sarajevo in fighting and sniper attacks during the conflict. Thousands more struggled daily to survive in conditions one witness compared to the siege of Leningrad during World War Two.
“The evidence discloses an horrific tale of the encirclement and entrapment of a city,” said Judge Patrick Robinson, before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia handed one of its harshest sentences since being set up in 1993.
“There was no safe place in Sarajevo, one could be killed or injured anywhere and anytime.”
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