Hague court jails ex-Yugoslav army general

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Source: Aljazeera

The highest-ranking officer of the former Yugoslav army has been jailed for 27 years by the UN tribunal at The Hague for war crimes.

General Momcilo Perisic, who served as chief of staff of the Yugoslav army during the Balkans conflict was found responsble for murder, persecution and attacks on civilians in Bosnia and Croatia in the 1990s.

The tribunal found Perisic, 67, guilty of helping Serb troops to plan and carry out war crimes, including the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica and of the 42 month-long siege of Sarajevo. Perisic was also convicted of failing to punish his subordinates for their crimes of murder, attacks on civilians and injuring and wounding civilians during rocket attacks on Zagreb in Croatia.

The tribunal found evidence that Perisic had had a "collaborative relationship" with Bosnian Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic, and "substantially aided his operations". Mladic is currently on trial at The Hague on charges of crimes including genocide.


Momcilo Perisic was found guilty for murder, persecution and attacks on Bosnia and Croatia in 1990s

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net//news/europe/2011/09/20119612317182802.html

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Nice to see another war criminal convicted and heading to prison. Perhaps Mladic will be next. Others to follow?

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1. After serving in JTF Provide Promise (B-H Humanitarian Ops), I'm

not at all surprised and predict a harsher sentence, probably life, for Ratko Mladic.

And even though Perisic's sentence is "only" 27 years, he's effectively in for life as well. Unless of course he's serviing the sentance in Scotland.