Srebrenica police commander freed early from jail

[WorldNews]

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A UN war crimes court on Tuesday granted the early release of a former Bosnian Serb police commander convicted and jailed for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Despite "the gravity of the crimes" for which Ljubomir Borovcanin was sentenced to 17 years in prison, the presiding judge of the Yugoslav war crimes court based in The Hague agreed he could be freed. Borovcanin, the deputy commander of a special Bosnian Serb police unit sent to take part in the Srebrenica genocide, was found guilty and sentenced in June 2010 to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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