Croat Serb Convicted of Atrocities
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"It is clear that Milan Martic endorsed the goal of creating a unified Serb state"  The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted a wartime leader of Croatia's rebel Serbs of murder, torture and persecution Tuesday and sentenced him to 35 years in prison for a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign of non-Serbs in Croatia.Judges said Milan Martic, 52, was responsible for hundreds of murders from 1991, when Serbs in the Krajina region of southern Croatia rebelled and set up a breakaway ministate until 1995, when Croatian forces recaptured the area.He also was convicted of ordering two days of indiscriminate cluster bomb shelling of the Croatian capital, Zagreb, in May 1995 that killed at least seven civilians and injured more than 200. Read more
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An American soldier who shot dead an unarmed and wounded Iraqi civilian to &quot;put him out of his misery&quot; was found guilty of murder yesterday.
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A Bosnian Muslim is found guilty of Srebrenica war crimes, but will go free as he has already spent time in jail.
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The U.N.'s highest court cleared Serbia Monday of genocide against Muslims in Bosnia's bloody war.Comment
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The appeals chamber of Bosnia's war crimes court on Wednesday sentenced Bosnian Serb Nedjo Samardzic to 24 years in jail after his original sentence of 13 years and four month was overturned.
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A former Rwandan officer is found guilty of murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers during the 1994 genocide.
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A Belgian court found a former Rwandan army major guilty on Wednesday of murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers and an undetermined number of civilians in the early days of the African republic's 1994 genocide.
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Serbian President Boris Tadic says sorry for crimes committed in the name of the Serb people in Bosnia.
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ZAGREB, Croatia  - The Croatian Supreme Court ordered the retrial Thursday of eight former military officials exonerated by a lower court for the torture and slaying of Serbs in a wartime prison.
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BELGRADE, Feb 26 (IPS) - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled   Monday that Serbia was not guilty of genocide in neighbouring  Bosnia.
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Former Yugoslav general Pavle Strugar is given an eight-year jail term for his role in the 1991 siege of Dubrovnik.
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Serbia on Monday hailed its acquittal before the World Court on genocide charges filed by Bosnia, saying it would help regional reconciliation.Comment
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A U.N. tribunal convicted and sentenced two former Bosnian Serb army commanders to lengthy prison terms Monday for their roles in the 1995 slaughter of thousands of Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica, Europe's worst massacre since World War II.
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A Swiss court finds a Turkish politician guilty of genocide denial over the killings of Armenians in Turkey in 1915.
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Judges at The Hague war crimes tribunal jailed two former Bosnian Serb army commanders for 18 and 9 years respectively Monday for their role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys.
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A U.N. tribunal Tuesday convicted a former Rwandan military commander of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the 1994 genocide and sentenced him to 25 years in prison.
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The UN war crimes court for Rwanda has convicted a Roman Catholic priest, the first it has tried, of genocide and sentenced him to 15 years for his role in the 1994 mass killings.