The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina today sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for participation in the murder of hundreds of Muslims at Srebrenica 15 years ago, dpa reported. Marko Boskic, a former Bosnian Serb soldier, was sentenced in a deal with the prosecution in which he entered a guilty plea and promised to testify on the Srebrenica massacre in exchange for a shortened prison term. He and seven other members of a special unit of the Bosnian Serb Army executed several hundred Muslim boys and men who were captured after the Srebrenica enclave fell on July 11, 1995. Boskic emigrated to United States after the war, but was arrested in 2009 because he lied about his taking part in the war on entry in the country and was eventually extradited to Bosnia. Serb forces under the command of general Ratko Mladic summarily executed around 8,000 Muslim males in the days after Srebrenica fell in the worst war atrocity in Europe since World War II. The United Nations war crimes tribunal has charged Mladic with genocide over Srebrenica, but the Bosnian Serb wartime military chief remains at large, presumably hiding somewhere in Serbia.
