{"id":48342,"date":"2019-10-31T10:17:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T02:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=48342"},"modified":"2019-10-31T10:17:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T02:17:43","slug":"bosnian-serb-extradited-by-france-handed-20-years-for-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=48342","title":{"rendered":"Bosnian Serb extradited by France handed 20 years for war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Radomir-Susnjar-.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Radomir-Susnjar--696x522.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SARAJEVO, Oct 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A former Bosnian Serb soldier extradited by France last year was sentenced to 20 years in prison for war crimes by a Sarajevo court on Wednesday, the maximum penalty for the crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Radomir Susnjar, 64, was convicted of taking part in the murder of at least<br>26 Muslim citizens in Visegrad in eastern Bosnia on June 14, 1992, shortly<br>after the start of the war between the country\u2019s Muslim, Serb and Croat<br>communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Susnjar \u201ccommitted the crime against the civilian population and this court<br>sentences him to 20 years in prison,\u201d judge Enida Hadziomerovic said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 15 people, including relatives of victims, applauded the verdict<br>inside the courtroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several survivors of the massacre, in which more than 50 people are<br>believed to have been killed, testified during the trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Susnjar was first arrested in France in 2014 before being released on<br>supervision. He was then arrested again and extradited to Bosnia in June<br>2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2012 two other former Bosnian Serb fighters were imprisoned for the same massacre, in which women, children and elderly were among the victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cousins Milan and Sredoje Lukic were sentenced to life and 27 years<br>respectively by the former Hague-based international tribunal, the ICTY,<br>which tried crimes from the wars that unravelled the former Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bosnia suffered the heaviest toll. More than 100,000 people perished in the<br>1992-1995 conflict, including more than 1,500 in the Visegrad area according to Bosnia\u2019s Institute for Missing Persons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today the country is still governed by the peace deal struck in 1995 that<br>carved Bosnia into several zones split along ethnic lines. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARAJEVO, Oct 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A former Bosnian Serb soldier extradited by France last year was sentenced to 20 years in prison for war crimes by a Sarajevo court on Wednesday, the maximum penalty for the crime. Radomir Susnjar, 64, was convicted of taking part in the murder of at least26 Muslim citizens in Visegrad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}