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| Serb Convicted for Videotaped Killings |
Serb Convicted for Videotaped Killings
 ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - An ethnic Serb seen killing Muslims in a nationally
televised video was convicted of war crimes Thursday and sentenced to 15
years in prison, with the judge saying he had shown "no mercy of compassion"
for his victims.
Serbian paramilitary member Slobodan Davidovic "actively participated in
inhuman treatment, humiliation and liquidation" of six young Muslim men from
Srebrenica in 1995, Zagreb district court judge Miroslav Sovanj said in his
ruling.
 He was seen in the video - shown by prosecutors at the trial of former
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and then broadcast across the former
Yugoslavia - helping kill six young Bosnian Muslims who had their hands tied
behind their backs.
Four were shot one by one in the back. Two others were ordered to carry the bodies into a barn where they, too, were killed.
The images shown earlier this year shocked Serbians, many of whom were in denial about the actions of Serb troops who overran the enclave of Srebrenica and killed 8,000 Muslim men and boys after separating them from women in the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.
Davidovic, 52, also was convicted of torturing a Croat prisoner of war during the 1991 Serbo-Croat war.
He was arrested in eastern Croatia in June soon after the footage was shown.
Five others seen in the video were arrested in Serbia and are on trial there. Prosecutors say the men were members of a Serbian paramilitary unit known as the Scorpions that took part in the killings at Srebrenica.
Davidovic, a Croatian citizen, joined the Scorpions - who allegedly operated under Milosevic's orders - during the 1992-95 war in neighboring Bosnia.
The judge rejected Davidovic's claims that he was forced to attend the killings but did not take part in them.
Sovanj said Davidovic returned to his hometown in eastern Croatia after the slayings "as if nothing happened."
The prosecution, which sought the maximum 20-year penalty. Both prosecutors and Davidovic said they would appeal the sentence.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5510596,00.html
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