UN court jails former Croatian general for war crimes

15/04/11 12:32 CET

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The former Croatian general Ante Gotovina has been jailed for crimes against humanity by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

It found him guilty of orchestrating a campaign of murder and plunder to drive some 200,000 Serbs from a rebel enclave as Croat forces retook the Serb-controlled Krajina region in 1995.

Gotovina – Croatia’s fallen hero

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