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UN Upholds War Crimes Conviction of Bosnian Leader

The Associated Press: April 3, 2007

THE HAGUE, Netherlands: An appeals court of the U.N. Yugoslav tribunal on Tuesday cut two years from the 32-year prison sentence of a Bosnian Serb political leader, upholding all but a few clauses of his conviction for pursuing a campaign of ethnic cleansing in northwest Bosnia.

Radislav Brdjanin, 59, headed the wartime political leadership of the self-declared Serbian autonomous region of Krajina at the start of the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

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