THE HAGUE, 7 July 2004 — A Bosnian Serb sentenced to 15 years in prison for the murder of five Bosnian Muslims during the 1992-95 war was transferred to Austria to serve his sentence, the UN court said.
In February this year Mitar Vasiljevic, 49, a former waiter was found guilty on appeal of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity and war crimes.
The appeals chamber confirmed a lower court’s conviction over the summary execution of five Muslims in the Bosnian town of Visegrad during “one of the most comprehensive and ruthless campaigns of ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian conflict”.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has a detention center for people on or awaiting trial but no jail for those convicted.
People convicted by the court serve their sentence in ten European countries who have agreed to take in ICTY convicts. Those countries are Britain, Denmark, Germany, Spain, France, Sweden, Austria, Norway and Italy.
