Balkan War Criminal with Reduced Sentence

World | April 19, 2004, Monday // 00:00

The UN war crimes tribunal in Hague reduced the prison sentence of a Bosnian Serb general to 35 years from 46 previously announced. Radislav Krstic, 56, was sentenced in August 2001 for playing a pivotal role in the slaughter of at least 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men in the UN-protected zone of Srebrenica during the war of 1995. Being so far the only Balkan war criminal convicted of genocide, he appealed in November on several grounds, asking that the court clarify its definition of genocide.

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