UN appeals judges expand the war crimes sentences of two allies of the late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic in the final case before The Hague tribunal dating from the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
UN judges have sentenced two former Serbian spymasters who worked for Yugoslav ex-President Slobodan Milosevic to 15 years in jail as it beefed up their initial convictions in the last case before The Hague tribunal dating from the Balkan wars.The men were found to have been part of a plan to drive out non-Serbs from towns and villages in Bosnia during the war
They are the only Serbian officials to have been convicted by a UN court of involvement in crimes in BosniaAppeals judges ruled that Jovica Stanisic, former head of Serbia's state security service, and his subordinate Franko "Frenki" Simatovic were responsible for crimes in several parts of Bosnia and Croatia due to their role in helping finance and train Serb militias during the 1990s break-up of Yugoslavia.
The two spymasters "shared the intent to further the common criminal plan to forcibly and permanently remove the majority of non-Serbs from large areas of Croatia and Bosnia", presiding judge Graciela Gatti Santana said in the ruling. Stanisic and Simatovic were initially convicted in 2021 of narrower charges of aiding and abetting crimes in one Bosnian town but prosecutors appealed to include more municipalities.
The pair denied all the charges against them and had argued that they had no real influence over Serb militias fighting in Bosnia.They now have no legal recourse left to appeal the ruling, marking the first time that Serbian state officials have received a definitive conviction for crimes committed in neighbouring Bosnia during the 1992-95 war.
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