Bosnia-Herzegovina's state court sentenced a Bosnian Serb to 13 years jail on Friday after finding him guilty of war crimes during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, according to dpa. As a Bosnian Serb police officer in the eastern town of Visegrad, Zeljko Lelek "committed murder, torture and rape" during "a wide and systematic attack" by Serb forces from May to June in 1992, according to the indictment. Lelek, 46, was also responsible for persecuting the Bosnian Muslim population in the Visegrad area and raping a female person detained in a local hotel in the early stages of the war, the court said. Bakira Hasecic, a member of an association representing female victims of the war, Zena - zrtva rata, claimed the sentence was too lenient. "I cannot believe the court delivered such a verdict. It seems that he (Lelek) would get more if he killed sheep than for what he has done in Visegrad," Hasecic told reporters.
