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| Bosnian Serbs guilty of burnings | Bosnian Serbs guilty of burnings |
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| Two Bosnian Serb military commanders have been found guilty of burning alive 140 civilians, including women and children, during the Bosnian civil war. | Two Bosnian Serb military commanders have been found guilty of burning alive 140 civilians, including women and children, during the Bosnian civil war. |
| Cousins Milan and Sredoje Lukic were members of a paramilitary group called the White Eagles, or the Avengers. | Cousins Milan and Sredoje Lukic were members of a paramilitary group called the White Eagles, or the Avengers. |
| They were accused of murder, persecution, extermination and other inhumane acts against Bosnian Muslims near Visegrad between 1992 and 1994. | They were accused of murder, persecution, extermination and other inhumane acts against Bosnian Muslims near Visegrad between 1992 and 1994. |
| Judges at The Hague jailed Milan Lukic for life, and Sredoje to 30 years. | |
| The cousins had denied the charges at their trial, which ended in May. | |
| But the court ruled that the men locked up about 140 women, children and elderly men in two houses - both in or near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad - before setting fire to them. | |
| All those who tried to escape were shot. | |
| Ethnic cleansing | |
| The judges described the murders as "callous" and "vicious". | The judges described the murders as "callous" and "vicious". |
| Milan Lukic went on the run for seven years after being indicted on war crimes charges, but was arrested in Argentina in August 2005 and was handed over to The Hague tribunal after being extradited. | |
| Sredoje Lukic surrendered to Bosnian Serb authorities the following month. | |
| The charge sheet asserted that Milan Lukic led the White Eagles paramilitary force. | |
| Prosecutors told the tribunal that the group carried out a campaign of ethnic cleaning. | |
| One prosecutor, Dermot Groome, said the cousins took part in a "widespread and systematic attack on the civilian population." | |
| In 2005, Milan and Sredoje Lukic were two of the Hague tribunal's top fugitives. |