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inanna

(3,547 posts) Fri Jan 30, 2015, 01:19 PM Jan 2015

Srebrenica massacre verdicts upheld at war crimes tribunal

Source: BBC

30 January 2015 Last updated at 07:10 ET

A judge at the UN Yugoslav tribunal has upheld the convictions of five men for their role in the Srebrenica massacre.

Sentences for four of the men, high-ranking officials in the Bosnian Serb Army in 1995, were also confirmed.

They had appealed against their convictions in 2010 for a range of crimes including genocide.

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About 8,000 Bosnian men and boys were killed in Srebrenica in just three days in 1995 - the worst atrocity on European soil since the Holocaust.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31053503

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Srebrenica massacre verdicts upheld at war crimes tribunal (Original Post) inanna Jan 2015 OP

Good. n/t whathehell Jan 2015 #1

I blame the Dutch Telcontar Jan 2015 #2

whathehell

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1. Good. n/t

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Fri Jan 30, 2015, 01:27 PM

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Telcontar

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2. I blame the Dutch

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Sat Jan 31, 2015, 08:15 AM

Jan 2015

They wete there to protect the safe haven. Their lack of moral courage and fear of engaging Serb forces enabled this event. To stand by and watch this happen offends the Soldier in me.

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