Iraqi-born Bosnian Gets Five Years for War Crime
From Times Wire Reports
Bosnia-Herzegovina’s state court handed down its first war crimes sentence, sending an Iraqi-born Bosnian to prison for five years for helping foreign Islamic fighters abduct three Croat civilians.
The court said in a statement that Abduladhim Maktouf had helped abduct the civilians in late 1993 and driven the van in which they were taken to a detention camp in the central Bosnian village of Orasac. The court convicted Maktouf of a lesser crime because he only assisted with the abduction, it said.
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