Bosnian Serb war criminal assaulted in UK prison

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Source: AP

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer

LONDON – A Bosnian Serb war criminal serving time for his role in the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica was assaulted by fellow inmates Friday at a high-security prison in northern England, officials said.

Radislav Krstic was hospitalized after an attack by three inmates at Wakefield prison, about 190 miles (300 kilometers) north of London, an official at Britain's Justice Ministry told The Associated Press. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with policy.

Neither the nature of assault nor its motive was divulged, although Krstic's son-in-law, Mladen Djurovic, told Serbia's Tanjug news agency that the former general was attacked "by Islamists" in the prison.

Krstic was convicted of aiding and abetting the murder of up to 8,000 Muslims in the U.N.-protected enclave of Srebrenica by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in 2001.

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1. The sun rises every morning. Film at 6.

Although assaults are very likely to happen in prisons, this is not funny at all.

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2. Not a lot of pity coming from me.

"The massacre occurred when Serb forces overwhelmed the town's hopelessly outgunned Dutch protectors and rounded up its inhabitants. At a car battery factory on the edge of town, men and boys were separated from women and girls, then hauled away, forced to strip — and shot one by one. Their wives and children were deported."

Yeah, pretty much not a good guy.

"Krstic's lawyer Tomislav Visnjic told the agency he will ask the Hague tribunal that Krstic be transferred to some other prison because British authorities "are obviously incapable" of protecting him."

Oooh, can we transfer him to the general population of a US prison? I want to see how capable we are.