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Serbian court sentences ex-soldier to prison for war crimes
Jun 23, 2009, 13:15 GMT
Belgrade - A Belgrade war crimes court on Tuesday sentenced a former member of ex Yugoslav army to 20 years in prison for war crimes committed in Croatia in 1991, local media reported.
The court sentenced Damir Sireta for murdering Croatian prisoners of war in Ovcara farm near Vukovar, eastern Croatia in 1991.
Sireta was arrested in December 2006 in Norway and was extradited to Serbia in May 2008.
In March, the same court sentenced seven men to 20 years in prison and six to five to 15 years in prison for crimes committed in Ovcara. Five men were acquitted.
In September 2007, the International Crime Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced high ranking officials in Serbian army - Mile Mrksic and Veselin Sljivancanin to 20 and 17 years in prison for Ovcara killings.
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