2 Serb Ex-Army Officers Convicted in Massacre
A U.N. tribunal at The Hague convicted and sentenced two former Bosnian Serb army commanders to prison for their roles in the 1995 slaughter of more than 7,000 Muslims from the eastern city of Srebrenica.
Col. Vidoje Blagojevic, 54, received an 18-year term for complicity in genocide and other war crimes. Dragan Jokic, 47, a major in another brigade who assumed command during a week of killing at the end of the 1992-95 war, got a nine-year sentence. He was convicted of murder, extermination and persecution on racial grounds.
Both were acquitted of allegations of command responsibility.
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