UN Court Jails Former Croatian General for War Crimes

April 29, 2011

The former Croatian general Ante Gotovina has been jailed for crimes against humanity by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. It found him guilty of orchestrating a campaign of murder and plunder to drive some 200,000 Serbs from a rebel enclave as Croat forces retook the Serb-controlled Krajina region in 1995.

(more) (less)

In This Video

Bosnian War

The Bosnian War, sometimes referred to as the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1 March 1992 and 14 December 1995. The war involved several factions. The main belligerents were the forces of the ... Explore this topic

The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population just over 500,000 inhabitants and more than one million inhabitants including the suburbs, it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The c... Explore this topic

Krajina

Krajina is a Slavic toponym. Explore this topic

Ante Gotovina

Ante Gotovina is a Croatian retired lieutenant general and former French senior corporal who served in the Croatian War for Independence. In 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicted him on a number of war crimes and crimes against humanity c... Explore this topic

Crimes Against Humanity

Crimes against humanity, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Explanatory Memorandum, "are particularly odious offenses in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of human beings." They are not ... Explore this topic

Serbs

The Serbs are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group living mainly in the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs inhabit Serbia and the disputed territory of Kosovo, as well as Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and form significant minorities in Croatia, the Republic of M... Explore this topic

Croats

Croats are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic... Explore this topic

Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina are people of Serb ethnicity inhabiting the Balkan regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, or, since the establishment of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a state in the 1990s, the Serbs who have its citizenship. The Serbs are one of the three constitut... Explore this topic

Also See

Bosnian War

The Hague

Krajina

Watch Next

1:51

Radovan Karadzic Demands Praise for Wartime Role as His Genocide Trial Begins

Al Jazeera English | Oct 16

WARNING: Graphic Content. Radovan Karadzic, former Bosnian Serb leader says he deserves praise, not condemnation, for his actions during the Balkan...