14 Serbs sentenced for killing 200 POWs
A Serbian court today found 14 former Serb militiamen guilty of war crimes and sentenced them to up to 20 years in prison for the killing of 200 Croat prisoners of war in 1991, one of the worst massacres of POWs during brutal Balkan wars.
Eight of the convicted Serbs received the maximum 20 years in jail.
The other six were handed prison sentences ranging from 5 to 15 years.
The only woman among the defendants was given nine years in prison.
Two of the 16 originally indicted were acquitted.
Since the landmark trial opened two years ago in Serbia’s special war crimes court, only one suspect and two protected witnesses have confessed to their roles in the brutal killings at a pig farm near the Croatian town of Vukovar.
