Trial of Sarajevo Siege Commander Starts
A Bosnian Serb commander during the siege of Sarajevo went on trial in The Hague for war crimes, accused of ordering his snipers and artillerymen to fire on civilians in the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina as they bought bread, tended vegetable gardens or attended victims’ funerals.
Maj. Gen. Stanislav Galic, 58, looked on impassively as prosecutors drew a portrait of fear and suffering in their opening statement at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
Galic has pleaded not guilty to seven counts of war crimes he says he never knew took place during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
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