Former Serb army chief Perisic sentenced to 27 years in jail

xinhua.net
English.news.cn 2011-09-07 00:11:19

THE HAGUE, Sep. 6 (Xinhua) -- The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday sentenced former Yugoslav Army chief Momsilo Perisic to 27 years imprisonment.
He was found guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia....more...
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Serbian general Perisic jailed for 27 years at Hague

bbc news
6 September 2011 Last updated at 11:11 GMT Help

The UN tribunal at The Hague has convicted the most senior officer of the former Yugoslav Army to stand trial for war crimes....more...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14803476

UN court jails ex-Yugoslav army chief for 27 years

euronews
Balkans - Serbia - War crimes

06/09 16:24 CET

Momcilo Perisic, the ex-army chief of the former Yugoslavia, has been sentenced to 27 years behind bars for war crimes.

The UN tribunal in the Hague jailed him for aiding and abetting in murders, persecutions and attacks on civilians in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s....more...
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http://www.euronews.net/2011/09/06/un-court-jails-ex-yugoslav-army-chief-for-27-years/

Ex-Yugoslav army chief Perisic jailed for Balkan atrocities

deutsche welle
BALKANS

06.09.2011
The UN's war crimes tribunal has sentenced Serbia's former army chief, Momcilo Perisic to 27 years in jail for murder, persecution and attacks on civilians in Bosnia and Croatia in the 1990s.
A UN war crimes court in The Hague sentenced former Yugoslav army general Momcilo Perisic to 27 years in jail on Tuesday for aiding and abetting Balkan war atrocities including the 1995 Srebrenica massacre....more....
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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15367858,00.html

Serb general jailed over Srebrenica massacre

independent
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic in The Hague
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
A former Serbian general and chief of staff of the Yugoslav army has been jailed for 27 years by the International Criminal Tribunal for his part in the killings of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995.

Momcilo Perisic was convicted of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity in relation to the massacre at Srebrenica and of dropping cluster bombs on the Croatian capital Zagreb a year later. The three-judge panel found Perisic, 67, guilty of 12 of the 13 charges levelled against him....more...
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/serb-general-jailed-over-srebrenica-massacre-2350373.html

Former Yugoslav general Momcilo Perisic jailed for war crimes

guardian
Tribunal jails ex-head of army for 27 years over military support to Bosnian and Croatian Serbs in massacres like Srebrenica

Associated Press in The Hague

guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 6 September 2011 11.13 BST

A war crimes tribunal has sentenced the former chief of the Yugoslav army to 27 years imprisonment for providing crucial military aid to Bosnian Serb forces responsible for the Srebrenica massacre and deadly four-year campaign of shelling and sniping in Sarajevo....more...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/06/yugoslav-general-momcilo-perisic-crimes

War crimes tribunal jails former Yugoslav army chief for 27 years

guardian
Momcilo Perisic guilty of aiding Bosnian Serbs responsible for Srebrenica massacre

Associated Press in The Hague

guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 6 September 2011 17.42 BST

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has sentenced the former chief of the Yugoslav army to 27 years in prison for providing military aid to Bosnian Serb forces responsible for the Srebrenica massacre and for a deadly four-year campaign of shelling and sniping in Sarajevo.

The verdict on General Momcilo Perisic is the first time the United Nations court has convicted a civilian or military officer from Yugoslavia of war crimes in Bosnia, and underscores the Yugoslav army's support for the Serb rebels in Bosnia and Croatia who committed the worst atrocities of the Balkan conflicts in the 1990s....more...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/sep/06/war-crimes-jail-yugoslav-army-chief

UN Court Jails Former Yugoslav Army Chief Perisic For 27 Years -video-

rferl
September 06, 2011

WATCH: Archival footage shows Momcilo Perisic with Bosnian Serb wartime commander Ratko Mladic, who was arrested in May. Bakone Moloto, the presiding judge, reads out the sentence in court.

The UN war crimes tribunal has found the former chief of the Yugoslav army, Momcilo Perisic, guilty of murder, persecution, and attacks on civilians in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia during the Balkans wars of the 1990s, and sentenced him to 27 years in prison....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/un_court_jails_former_yugoslav_army_chief/24319447.html

Ex-Yugoslav army chief jailed for 27 years by UN court over Srebrenica

telegraph
Bosnia
A UN court Tuesday sentenced ex-Yugoslav army chief Momcilo Perisic to 27 years in jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
3:58PM BST 06 Sep 2011

Perisic, the highest ranking member of the former Yugoslav army, appeared a hearing before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague (ICTY).
Chief of the Yugoslav army's general staff between 1993 and 1998, Perisic gave personnel, officers, weapons and logistical support to the Bosnian Serb army as well as the self-proclaimed republic of Krajina's army, knowing it would be used to wage war and commit crimes against Muslim civilians, the judge said....more...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/bosnia/8744553/Ex-Yugoslav-army-chief-jailed-for-27-years-by-UN-court-over-Srebrenica.html

Serbian Official Convicted of War Crimes

ny times
By J. DAVID GOODMAN

Published: September 6, 2011
The former head of the armed forces in Serbia was convicted on Tuesday of crimes against humanity and war crimes by an international tribunal at The Hague.
The former official, Momcilo Perisic, was the army chief of staff of Yugoslavia in the 1990s when that crumbling nation was reduced to just Serbia and Montenegro, and he was a principal architect of the ethnic war in the breakaway republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...more...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/world/europe/07hague.html?_r=1&ref=croatia