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eppur_se_muova

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Fri Jun-12-09 04:57 PM
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Bosnian Serb jailed for massacre

Source: BBC

A court in Sarajevo has imprisoned a former Bosnian Serb officer for 25 years for ordering the 1995 shelling of Tuzla, an attack that killed 71 people.

Novak Djukic was found guilty of war crimes against civilians.

A single shell was fired at the centre of the mainly Muslim town of Tuzla on 25 May 1995, despite it having been declared a United Nations "safe zone".
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The war crimes department of the Court of Bosnia-Hercegovina found that, as a regional commander during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, he had been responsible for ordering an artillery unit stationed on nearby Mount Ozren to shell Tuzla.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8097918.stm

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TacticalPeek

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Fri Jun-12-09 05:15 PM
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1. War crimes? Hmmmm . . . war crimes . . .

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