From “Serbia jails three for killing Muslims, prosecutor to appeal” via Reuters:
A Serbian court sentenced former paramilitaries convicted of the 1992 killings of Muslim civilians in eastern Bosnia to between three to 15 years in jail on Thursday, sentences the prosecutor said were too light.
Dragan Slavkovic, Ivan Korac and Sinisa Filipovic, all members of paramilitary group “Yellow Wasps”, were found guilty of killing at least 25 Muslim civilians in the Zvornik area and were sentenced to 15, 13 and 3 years in prison respectively.
It was the first case transferred to Serbia by the U.N war crimes tribunal in The Hague and seen as a chance to prove a Serbian court could conduct a fair trial of Serb war crime suspects.
Serb war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said he was not happy with the verdicts and would ask for the maximum sentence of 20 years.
“The verdicts are not sufficient, they are too mild. We are going to appeal,” he told reporters.
According to records, the three beat and tortured men for weeks. They carved crosses on their foreheads, cut off their ears and testicles and forced them to eat them and forced fathers and sons to commit sexual acts on each other.
According to records, the three beat and tortured men for weeks. They carved crosses on their foreheads, cut off their ears and testicles and forced them to eat them and forced fathers and sons to commit sexual acts on each other.
If those records are true, then not even 20 years is sufficient for these animals. Life with no option for parole is the minimum.
Of course, Reuters could not help but put in a dig against Serbs, saying,
Some 13 years after the war in Bosnia ended, many Serbs see the paramilitaries as heroes who defended the nation.
Many Serbs? I would think it is a tiny number of only the most radical and extremist Serbs that see paramilitaries like these killers as heroes.
The worst of Serbian society was unleashed on the Bosnian’s and now the people of Serbia are gradually facing up to the job of dealing with the consequences of their outrages and in cases like this, meting out justice.
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