War crimes court jails Bosnian Serbs
Zupljanin (left) and Stanisic were found guilty of crimes committed across Bosnia in 1992
Two former top Bosnian
Serb officials have been convicted by the war crimes tribunal in The
Hague over atrocities committed during the Bosnian conflict of the
1990s.
Both Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin were sentenced to 22 years in jail.
Stanisic was interior minister of the Bosnian Serb republic and Zupljanin a senior security official.
The court said both took part in a campaign to remove Muslims, Croats and other non-Serbs from the region.
They were convicted of crimes against humanity including acts
of murder, torture, unlawful detention, deportation and plunder in
various parts of Bosnia in 1992.
In its ruling, the International Criminal Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said the two had taken part in a "joint
criminal enterprise with the objective to permanently remove non-Serbs
from the territory of a planned Serbian state".
Stanisic, 58, gave himself up in 2005. Zupljanin, a former
police chief in the north-western Bosanska Krajina region was arrested
in 2008 after more than nine years on the run.
Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic and his
military commander Ratko Mladic are still on trial at the ICTY over
atrocities committed during the conflict, including the Srebrenica
massacre of 1995.
About 100,000 people were killed during the Bosnian conflict.
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