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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mike Corder

UN court issuing appeal ruling in long-running trial of 2 Serbs accused of crimes in Balkan wars

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Two allies of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic convicted of aiding and abetting murder and other crimes committed by Serb paramilitaries in a Bosnian town in 1992 are set to hear the results of their appeal Wednesday, 20 years after they were first indicted by a United Nations court.

The decision by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic brings to an end the longest-running war crimes prosecution dating back to the Balkan wars of the early 1990s.

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