PARIS — A United Nations court on Friday found a wartime Croatian general, Ante Gotovina, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity in a campaign he led to regain Croatian land and drive Serbs out of the Krajina region in 1995. Mr. Gotovina was sentenced to 24 years in prison for shelling towns and killing and persecuting civilians. The court sentenced Mladen Markac, another general involved in the campaign, to 18 years, but acquitted a third, Ivan Cermak, of all charges and ordered his release. The decision by a three-judge panel of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague was also an indirect verdict on the late president of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman, who died in 1999 as…
Posted by
on April 15, 2011. Filed under News.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0.
You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
Posted by
on April 15, 2011. Filed under