UN appeals judges expand convictions of two allies of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, holding them responsible for involvement in crimes during the Balkan wars
Former head of Serbia's state security service Jovica Stanisic appears in court in The Hague. / Photo: Reuters
Presiding Judge Graciela Gatti Santana said the two men, both now in their 70s, “shared the intent to further the common criminal purpose to forcibly and permanently remove the majority of non-Serbs from large areas of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina through the commission of the crimes charged in the indictment.”
“This is the only decision we have with officials from Belgrade convicted as part of the joint criminal enterprise,” he said. Stanisic and Simatovic were convicted two years ago of aiding and abetting murder and other crimes committed by Serb paramilitaries in 1992 in the Bosnian town of Bosanski Samac but acquitted of responsibility for other crimes. The appeals chamber reversed both those findings and raised their sentences.
Brammertz said that war crimes trials would continue in the Balkans as many victims and survivors still await justice.
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