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A Serbian tribunal has sentenced the leader and three members of a Serbian death squad for executing Bosnians in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. It’s the first time a Serbian court has tried anyone for the massacre, in which the Scorpions, a Serbian paramilitary group, systematically killed all the men and boys—nearly 8,000 people—in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. The four were arrested after a video they took of themselves during the killing spree turned up at an earlier war-crimes trial. The video, shown widely on national TV, shocked many Serbs who had long denied that their countrymen committed atrocities during the Yugoslav wars. The Scorpions’ commander, Slobodan Medic, received a 20-year sentence; the other defendants’ sentences ranged from five to 20 years.
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