Seven Bosnian Serbs guilty of genocide


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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A court has convicted seven Bosnian Serbs of genocide committed in Srebrenica in 1995. Another four were acquitted.

Three former soldiers and policemen were sentenced to 42 years in prison; another three defendants received 40-year sentences and one was sent to prison for 38 years.

Today’s ruling was the Bosnian war crimes court’s first sentence related to Srebrenica, the worst massacre committed in Europe since World War II

The seven were convicted of killing of more than 1,000 captured Muslim Bosniak men after Bosnian Serb forces conquered the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica.
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Samuel wrote on Jul 30, 2008 7:11 AM:

Sounds like this can be considered the Holocaust II. Haven't we learned anything from WWII? I remember learning about the Holocaust in School when I was in the third grade and some Government Bureaucrat under the Carter Administration saying that this will never happen again while America is still reigning in the world! Well, What happen here??? I know that it is hard to tell if and when some wacko will come crawling out of the woodwork, but the way that area of Europe was all of a sudden carved up should have given a hint that something sinister may be happening...


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