Two Bosnian Serb commanders have been found guilty of war crimes, including burning women and children alive, during the Bosnian civil war.Cousins Milan and Sredoje Lukic were members of a paramilitary group called the White Eagles, or the Avengers. They were accused of murder, persecution, extermination and other inhumane acts against Bosnian Muslims near Visegrad between 1992 and 1994. Judges at The Hague jailed Milan Lukic for life, and Sredoje to 30 years.
Two Bosnian Serb commanders have been found guilty of war crimes, including burning women and children alive, during the Bosnian civil war.
Cousins Milan and Sredoje Lukic were members of a paramilitary group called the White Eagles, or the Avengers.
They were accused of murder, persecution, extermination and other inhumane acts against Bosnian Muslims near Visegrad between 1992 and 1994.
Judges at The Hague jailed Milan Lukic for life, and Sredoje to 30 years.
The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague will deliver its verdict Monday on two Serb cousins who are accused in the deaths of some 150 Muslim civilians during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war. Milan and Sredoje Lukic went on trial on July 9 last year. The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague will deliver its verdict Monday on two Serb cousins who are accused in the deaths of some 150 Muslim civilians during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war. Milan and Sredoje Lukic, who went on trial on July 9 last year, face 21 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes for their alleged actions as members of a paramilitary group in the small south-eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad. The prosecution is calling for them to spend the rest of their lives in prison for their part in "one of the most notorious campaigns of ethnic cleansing in the conflict... designed to permanently rid the town of its Bosnian Muslim population", according to the indictment. Milan, 41, was allegedly a founding member of the group known as the "White Eagles" or "Avengers" that worked with police and military units between 1992 and 1994 to terrorise Muslim communities. His cousin, 48, joined later.
The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague will deliver its verdict Monday on two Serb cousins who are accused in the deaths of some 150 Muslim civilians during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war. Milan and Sredoje Lukic, who went on trial on July 9 last year, face 21 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes for their alleged actions as members of a paramilitary group in the small south-eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad. The prosecution is calling for them to spend the rest of their lives in prison for their part in "one of the most notorious campaigns of ethnic cleansing in the conflict... designed to permanently rid the town of its Bosnian Muslim population", according to the indictment. Milan, 41, was allegedly a founding member of the group known as the "White Eagles" or "Avengers" that worked with police and military units between 1992 and 1994 to terrorise Muslim communities. His cousin, 48, joined later.
