FILE of former Croatian Serb leader Milan Martic during war скачать в хорошем качестве

FILE of former Croatian Serb leader Milan Martic during war

(12 Jun 2007) FILE: Knin, Krajina, Croatia - May 4 1995 1. Then Bosnian Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian Serb leader, arriving in car 2. Another car arriving 3. Karadzic (grey suit) and Milan Martic, then self-styled president of the Croatian Serbs (moustache, to left of Karadzic) walking into building 4. Then Serb Krajina leader Milan Celeketic pointing at map 5. Wide of meeting 6. Zoom out of Karadzic and Martic listening 7. Zoom out from Martic to Martic and Karadzic 8. Wide of meeting 9. Pan to Celeketic 10. Wide of meeting FILE: Gradiska, Croatia - May 4 1995 11. Various of Martic walking among troops 12. Various of Martic addressing troops STORYLINE: The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted a wartime leader of Croatia's rebel Serbs of murder, torture and persecution on Tuesday and sentenced him to 35 years in prison for a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign of non-Serbs in Croatia. Judges said Milan Martic, 52, was responsible for hundreds of murders from 1991 when Serbs in the Krajina region of northeastern Croatia rebelled and set up a breakaway ministate until 1995 when Croatian forces recaptured the area. He also was convicted of ordering two days of indiscriminate cluster bomb shelling of the Croatian capital, Zagreb, in May 1995 that killed at least seven civilians and injured more than 200. Martic stood still and showed no emotion as presiding judge Bakone Moloto read out the verdict and his sentence. The three-judge U.N. panel said Martic was deeply involved in a criminal plot with other Serb leaders including Slobodan Milosevic, Gen. Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic to carve out an ethnically pure "greater Serbia" as Yugoslavia crumbled that would include about one third of Croatia. Moloto said it was clear that Milan Martic endorsed the goal of creating a unified Serb state. Martic was indicted in July 1995, just two months after ordering the shelling of Zagreb. The indiscriminate attack using rockets loaded with cluster bombs over two days hit buildings including a school, a children's hospital and the Croatian national theatre, said Moloto. In media interviews, Martic admitted ordering the shelling to retaliate against Croatian attacks on Serbs and warn against further attacks, Moloto said. Martic turned himself into the U.N. court in May 2002 and pleaded not guilty to all 19 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was convicted Tuesday of 16 counts and acquitted of the charge of extermination, saying the number of deaths involved did not justify the charge. Judges dropped two other charges, saying they were covered by another charge in the indictment. The Croatian general, Ante Gotovina, who drove the rebel Serbs out of Krajina in 1995 also is on trial at the U.N. court for offences committed in Operation Storm that successfully reclaimed the region. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...