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Serbian court convicts four Serbs for war crimes of massacring forty-eight Kosovo Albanian civilians.(TOPICS IN BRIEF)(Brief article)
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February 01, 2009 |
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On April 23, after a three-year trial, a Serbian war crimes court on Thursday convicted four former Serbian policemen for massacring 48 Kosovo Albanians at Suva Reka; it sentenced two of them to 20 years in prison. The other two received sentences of 15 or 13 years. The judges said that the dead were the victims of the worst single slaughter of civilians during the 1998-99 Kosovo war. Among the victims were 14 children, two infants, a pregnant woman and a 100-year-old woman. In Serbia, the trial evidenced a powerful change in local public opinion, for many citizens had looked upon Serbs who fought ...
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