[Hamp-law] Hague Convictions for Bosnian Serbs

[Flavio Risech]

While I am sending this primarily to inform those who participated in 
the March 2001 Hampshire human rights trip to The Hague, I am sending 
it out to hamp-law as well for anyone who might be interested,

For your information, the three men whose trial we observed for 
several days last March were sentenced yesterday by the International 
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia upoon conviction for 
crimes against humanity at the Keraterm prison camp in northern 
Bosnia in 1992.

Sikirica, the Keraterm camp commander, was sentenced to 15 years. 
Dosen was sentenced to 5 years, and Kulundzija, who prosecution 
witnesses said was such a nice guy, was sentenced to 3 years. All 
three had expressed remorse for their actions and had changed their 
please to guilty on several charges.

These were among the first plea agreements entered by this Tribunal, 
and prosecutors expect this to develop into a trend among low-ranking 
defendants now that the Tribunal has gained custody of much more 
high-level suspects.

See story in New York Times, Nov. 14, 2001, for more information, or 
visit the Tribunal website for full texts at www.icty.org.


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Flavio Risech-Ozeguera
Associate Professor of Law and Ethnic Studies
School of Social Science
Hampshire College
Amherst MA 01002-5001
413-559-5504; fax 413-559-5620