UN court to deliver final verdict in Bosnian Croat war crimes appeal
A United Nations war crimes tribunal will hand down its last judgment on an appeal by six Bosnian Croat political and military leaders convicted over war crimes committed during the break-up of Yugoslavia.
A picture taken on November 27, 2017 in the historical core of the southern Bosnian town of Mostar shows a writing near the "Old Bridge".
The UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is scheduled on Wednesday to deliver its judgment in the appeal of six senior Bosnian-Croat wartime officials.
They were charged with the ethnic cleansing of Muslims from parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, and sentenced to 111 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The six appealing their sentences are - Jadranko Prlic, Bruno Stojic, Slobodan Praljak, Milivoj Petkovic, Valentin Coric and Berislav Pusic.
TRT World Francis Collings has more on the crime and its aftermath.
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