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Jail for death squad

BELGRADE: Four Serb paramilitaries seen in a video gunning down Bosnian Muslims near Srebrenica in 1995 were convicted of war crimes against civilians on Tuesday by Serbia's War Crimes Court. It was the first court ruling in Serbia related to the systematic killings of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in the final months of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia. Trials of Serbs in Serbia have only become possible since the 2000 ouster of President Slobodan Milosevic. The Srebrenica case has been a key test of the ability of Serbia's judiciary to deal with wartime atrocities. The four Serbs found guilty were seen in a video that surfaced in June 2005 when it was shown at the war crimes trial of Milosevic The footage, recorded by a unit member who apparently believed it would never become public, showed the men taking Bosnian Muslim civilians from a truck with their hands tied and lining them up on a hillside before spraying them with machine gun fire. — AP

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