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                UN War Crimes Court Convicts Six Bosnians Croats

   The U.N. war crimes court has convicted six Bosnian-Croat political and
   military leaders on charges of murder, rape and the expulsion of
   Muslims from Bosnia during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
   Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
   also said Croatian leaders, including the late Croatian President
   Franjo Tudjman, were complicit in plans to create a Croatian mini-state
   in Bosnia.
   The court said murders, rapes and deportations "were not random acts of
   a few unruly soldiers," but part of a plan to permanently remove
   Muslims from territory in Bosnia claimed by Bosnian Croats.
   The six on trial were given sentences ranging from 10-25 years, with
   the longest handed down to Jadranko Prlic, who led Herceg-Bosna, the
   self-proclaimed Croatian republic inside Bosnia.
   The court also found them responsible for destroying a centuries-old
   bridge in Mostar, whose shelling became a symbol of the many acts of
   cultural vandalism committed during the Balkans conflict.
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