Former Croatian Serb leader Milan Martic convicted

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Former Croatian Serb leader Milan Martic convicted

Published: June 12, 2007

THE HAGUE, Netherlands: The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal
convicted a wartime leader of Croatia's rebel Serbs of murder,
torture and persecution Tuesday and sentenced him to 35
years in prison for a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign
of non-Serbs in Croatia and shelling the capital, Zagreb.

Judges said Milan Martic, 52, was responsible for hundreds
of murders from 1991 when Serbs in the Krajina region of
southern Croatia rebelled and set up a breakaway ministate
until 1995 when Croatian forces recaptured the area.

He also was convicted of ordering two days of indiscriminate
cluster bomb shelling of the Croatian capital, Zagreb, in May
1995 that killed at least seven civilians and injured more
than 200.

Most of the crimes were "committed against elderly people,
persons held in detention and civilians. The special
vulnerability of these victims adds to the gravity of the
crimes," said presiding judge Bakone Moloto.

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