Court Jails Serb for Bosnia War Crimes

A Bosnian Serb was convicted of being an accessory in the murder of Muslims in his homeland and was sentenced to five years in prison. Novislav Djajic, 34, a member of a Bosnian Serb military unit, was tried in Munich, where he has been living since 1993. The three-month proceeding was Germany’s first war crimes trial under international auspices since the Nuremberg trials in 1945. Prosecutors had sought a nine-year sentence for Djajic, who was charged with taking part in the massacre of 14 Muslims in his hometown of Trnovace, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1992. The Bavarian state supreme court convicted Djajic on counts of being an accessory to murder and of attempted murder.