Judges sentenced a Bosnian Serb to 18 years jail at The Hague tribunal on Thursday for murdering and sexually assaulting Muslim men held in a notorious Serb-run detention camp during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
Ranko Cesic confessed last year to shooting and beating 10 prisoners to death and forcing two Muslim brothers to perform sexual acts on each other at gunpoint in the Luka camp near Brcko in May 1992.
Serb forces confined hundreds of Muslim and Croat men in inhumane conditions at the Luka camp from May to July 1992. Detainees were selected from a hangar for interrogation, beating and killing, prosecutors said.
"The trial chamber hereby sentences you to a period of 18 years' imprisonment," presiding judge Alphons Orie said.
Cesic's co-accused Goran Jelisic, who styled himself the "Serb Adolf Hitler", was sentenced to 40 years in prison in 1999 for the murder and torture of Muslims at the Luka camp.
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