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  • Serb Gets Life For War Crimes

    07/31/2003 9:58:46 AM PDT · by NYC Republican · 98 replies · 4,088+ views
    CBS News/AP ^ | 7/31/03 | AP
    (AP) The U.N. war crimes tribunal sentenced a prominent Bosnian Serb politician to life imprisonment Thursday for exterminating and persecuting Bosnian Muslims, but acquitted him of genocide. It was the first time in the court's 10-year history that a life sentence was passed. Milomir Stakic, a 41-year-old doctor, was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity for establishing a network of brutal prison camps where hundreds of Muslims were killed and thousands tortured, raped or treated with extreme brutality in 1992. “Dr. Milomar Stakic is hereby sentenced to life imprisonment,” said Judge Wolfgang Schomburg, reading the verdict as...
  • War crimes: Bosnian Serb gets life

    07/31/2003 10:44:05 AM PDT · by a_Turk · 2 replies · 157+ views
    CNN ^ | 7/31/2003 | N/A
    <p>THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The U.N. war crimes tribunal has handed down its first life sentence after convicting a Bosnian Serb of war crimes and crimes against humanity, a tribunal spokesman said.</p> <p>Milomir Stakic, the mayor of the Prijedor municipality in northwest Bosnia during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, was cleared of genocide but convicted on Thursday of persecution, extermination and murder of Bosnian Muslims and Croats in Prijedor.</p>