58 years’ imprisonment, overall. This is the sentence passed a few days ago by the Serbian Tribunal for War Crimes against four paramilitaries, who took part in the massacre of Srebrenica. It was one of the darkest pages in the conflict that shed blood all over the former Yugoslavia: thousands of Bosnians were killed in July 2005 by the Serbian-Bosnian troops led by general Ratko Mladiæ, while the city was under the protection of the United nations, which witnessed the massacre powerlessly. The paramilitaries, members of the special "Scorpions" taskforce, were found guilty of the murder of six Muslim prisoners through an amateur video that was shown during the trial against the former president of Yugoslavia, Slodoban Milosevic, which shows the savage executions of the victims. The sentences are 20 years each for the two accused persons, 13 and 5 years for the others. The association "Mothers of Srebrenica" considered the sentence insufficient and said they would deserve at least a life sentence "and even death penalty would be too little with what they did to those innocent boys".
