Serb gets 10-year jail term for village attack

A former Bosnian Serb politician has been jailed for 10 years after he admitted ordering an attack on a village that killed more…

A former Bosnian Serb politician has been jailed for 10 years after he admitted ordering an attack on a village that killed more than 60 Muslims during the Bosnian war.

Miroslav Deronjic, a prominent member of the Serbian Democratic Party in the Bratunac region of eastern Bosnia during the 1992-1995 conflict, pleaded guilty to persecution, a crime against humanity, at the war crimes tribunal last year.

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