Bosnian Serb and former doctor Milomir Stakic was cleared of genocide during the Bosnian war but convicted of related crimes and sentenced to life in prison by the war crimes tribunal at the Hague. It is the first time the tribunal handed down a life sentence -- the maximum penalty it can impose. Stakic was convicted of the persecution, extermination and deportation of thousands Bosnian Muslims and Croats in north-west Bosnia's notorious prison camps during the war. The man had faced three counts of genocide and five counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes in the camps set up in the Prijedor region.