U.N. court sentences rebel Serb leader to 35 years
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The U.N. war crimes tribunal sentenced the former leader of rebel Serbs in Croatia, Milan Martic, to 35 years in jail for ordering atrocities committed while rebel Serbs set up a breakaway state in Croatia.
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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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Thirteen Congolese army soldiers and  four former militia fighters have been sentenced to life  imprisonment in separate war crimes convictions by local  military authorities, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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A Bosnian Serb general who ordered the relentless shelling, sniping and indiscriminate terror that rained down on Sarajevo during the final phase of a 44-month siege, was convicted of war crimes Wednesday and given a 33-year prison sentence.
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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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Colombian rebel leader Ricardo Palmera was sentenced to 60 years in prison Monday for helping hold three U.S. contractors hostage as part of a decades-long struggle with the Colombian government.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va.  - A prominent U.S. Muslim  activist was sentenced on Friday to 23 years in prison for  illegal financial dealings with Libya and for his role in a  Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's de facto leader.
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PARIS, June 12 â The U.N. war crimes court hearing cases from the former Yugoslavia today found a former henchman of president Slobodan Milosevic guilty of multiple crimes while heading a Serbian separatist rebellion and sentenced him to 35 years in prison.
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THE HAGUE -- A UN tribunal convicted and sentenced two former Bosnian Serb army commanders to lengthy prison terms yesterday for their roles in the 1995 slaughter of thousands of Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica, Europe's worst massacre since World War II. Colonel Vidoje Blagojevic, 54, received an 18-year term for complicity in genocide and other war crimes. Major Dragan Jokic, ...
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A Belgian court sentenced a former Rwandan army major to 20 years in prison today for his part in the murder of 10 Belgian peacekeepers and an unspecified number of Rwandan civilians at the start of the 1994 genocide.
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The UN war crimes court jails a Bosnian Serb general for life over the Sarajevo siege, increasing his earlier 20-year-sentence on appeal.
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A U.S. soldier was sentenced to a 25-year term Saturday after a court martial convicted him in the death of an Iraqi National Guard member in May, the military said.
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Former Bosnian Serb Deputy Prime Minister Radoslav Brdjanin was sentenced to 32 years in prison by The Hague war crimes tribunal Wednesday for his role in ethnic cleansing during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
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A former Colombian rebel leader was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Monday for conspiring to take hostages in connection with the kidnapping of three American contractors in 2003 in Colombia.
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A federal judge Friday sentenced Abdurahman Alamoudi to the maximum 23-year prison term for illegal dealings with Libya that included his involvement in a complex plot to kill the Saudi ruler.
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Savo Todovic, the ex-deputy commander of a Bosnian Serb concentration camp, is given 30 days to enter a plea.
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A Rwandan doctor and one-time possible presidential candidate has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for his role in the country's 1994 genocide, human rights groups said Wednesday.