Ex-Bosnian Croat Paramilitaries Given Lengthy Prison Sentences

World | March 31, 2003, Monday // 00:00

Mladen Naletilic, and Vinko Martinovic, former Bosnian Croat paramilitaries, have been sentenced to 20 and 18 years in prison respectively by the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague for their roles in the Bosnian civil war in the early 1990s, BBC reported. Naletilic founded a notorious paramilitary unit which allegedly specialised in driving Muslims from their homes in the Bosnian city of Mostar and surrounding areas. Martinovic, Naletilic's subordinate, had also been found guilty of forcing Muslim prisoners to act as decoys with fake guns to draw enemy fire.

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