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Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Bosnian Serb who testified against Milosevic sentenced for war crimes
Bernard Hibbitts at 9:44 AM ET

A former Bosnian Serb official who testified against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was sentenced Tuesday at The Hague to ten years in prison for ordering the 1992 destruction of a Bosnian Muslim village which resulted in the deaths of 65 people. Miroslav Deronjic had pleaded guilty to charges of persecution last year. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has issued a press release; the sentencing judgment against Deronjic is here [PDF]. Reuters has more.



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