War crimes court convicts Bosnian Serbs
Source: Aljazeera
Zupljanin (left) and Stanisic (right) were charged for conspiring with former leader Radovan Karadzic
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has sentenced two former Bosnian Serb officials to 22 years in prison, each, for their roles in a campaign against Muslims, Croats and non-Serbs in Bosnia during the Balkan country's 1992-95 war.
Mico Stanisic, the former interior minister, and his subordinate Stojan Zupljanin, a former senior security official in charge of police, were convicted on Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Stanisic, 58, and Zupljanin, 61, faced war crimes and crimes against humanity charges including murder, torture and cruel treatment of non-Serbs in municipalities and detention centres during Bosnia's war which left 100,000 people dead and about 2.2 million homeless.
The tribunal has indicted 161 people, mostly Serbs, for their role in the former Yugoslavia. Only six trials remain to be completed.
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