security officials after a legal process lasting two decades. jovica stanisic, pictured here on the left, and franko simatovic, on the right, are both in their 70s. both were sentenced to 12 years in 2021 in a retrial that followed acquittals in 2013. the pair were convicted of training serbian death squads who committed crimes including murder and ethnic cleansing. they ll now serve 15 years, rather than their original sentence of 12, after a legal process lasting two decades. hugely significant decision today. these two men tied the serbian infrastructure to the ethnic cleansing of non serbs during this conflict. you may be able to see in the background, mothers of srebrenica, i have been speaking to a woman who lost two children in the srebrenica massacre. she said the court has brought them justice today, she said, it s a beautiful day forjustice. that is what this court represents for so many. this is the final verdict, the final trial conducted by this court. these two men were o
The UN tribunal in The Hague will hand down its verdict in the war crimes retrial of Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic after they appealed against their initial conviction, concluding a two-decade-long court process.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) Two allies of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic convicted of aiding and abetting murder and other crimes committed by Serb paramilitaries in a Bosnian town in 1992 are set to hear the results of their appeal Wednesday, 20 years after they were first indicted by a United Nations court. The […]
Two allies of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic convicted of aiding and abetting murder and other crimes committed by Serb paramilitaries in a Bosnian town in 1992 are set to hear the results of their appeal, 20 years after they were first indi.