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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont

Court widens war crimes convictions of former Serbian security officers

Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović at The Hague in 2017.
Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović at The Hague in 2017. Photograph: Michael Kooren/ANP/AFP/Getty Images

Two former senior Serbian security officers have had their convictions for war crimes upheld and widened by a tribunal in The Hague, in the last major war crimes trial from the conflicts in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia.

UN judges significantly expanded the convictions of two allies of the late Serbian president Slobodan Milošević, holding them responsible for involvement in crimes – across Bosnia and Herzegovina and in one town in Croatia – as members of a joint plan to ethnically cleanse non-Serbs from the areas during the 1990s wars in the Balkans.

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