Bosnian Serb leader jailed for war crimes

Former Bosnian Serb Deputy Prime Minister Radoslav Brdjanin has been sentenced to 32 years in prison by The Hague war crimes …

Former Bosnian Serb Deputy Prime Minister Radoslav Brdjanin has been sentenced to 32 years in prison by The Hague war crimes tribunal.

Brdjanin was jailed for his role in ethnic cleansing in the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

He was a prominent member of the Serbian Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SDS).

He was convicted of supporting killings, torture and persecution of Bosnian Croats and Muslims in 1992 but cleared of the gravest charge against him of genocide.

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