General Gets 20 Years for Atrocities in Sarajevo
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A former Bosnian Serb general at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague was sentenced to 20 years in prison for deliberately shelling and shooting civilians during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
Stanislav Galic, 60, is the first suspect to be tried by the tribunal exclusively in connection with the 44-month siege of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s capital.
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