The Higher Court in Belgrade announced yesterday that for the war crime in 1993, committed in co-perpetration against train passengers in Strpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), it has convicted Gojko Lukic, Dusko Vasiljevic, and Dragana Djekic.
The War Crimes Department of the Higher Court sentenced Lukic and Vasiljevic to ten years in prison each, and Djekic to five years in prison.
An appeal to the Court of Appeal is allowed, it says in the statement.
The time spent in custody has been credited toward the sentences of the accused, and the families of the killed have been referred to civil proceedings to pursue property claims.
Members of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) on February 27th, 1993, took 20 non-Serb passengers off a Belgrade-Bar train at the railway station in Strpci and killed them.
Among them were 18 Bosniaks, one Croat, and one person of unidentified identity, and most of them were citizens of the FR Yugoslavia, mainly from Priboj, Prijepolje, Belgrade, and Podgorica.
The youngest victim of the crime in Strpci was 16 years old, and the oldest was 59.
To this day, the remains of only four victims have been found in Lake Perucac.
For the crime in Strpci, ten people have been finally convicted before courts in the region.
