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Serbs jailed for Srebrenica mass-killings at Kravica warehouse

A court in Bosnia has convicted seven Serbs of genocide for rounding up and executing more than 1,000 Bosnian Muslims in a single day during the Srebrenica massacre.

The Sarajevo court gave the men sentences ranging from 38 to 42 years for their participation in the murders — some of the 8,000 killings in the 1995 massacre for which Radovan Karadzic must answer in The Hague. Four other defendants were acquitted.
Read entire article at Times (UK)