War Crimes Tribunal sentences the Serb leader Krajisnik to a long prison sentence

Following the sentence on the former President of Parliament, Momcilo Krajisnik, to 27 years imprisonment by the International War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) called on the Security Council on Wednesday to allow the Tribunal to work at least until the arrest and conviction of the Serb leaders Radko Mladic and Radovan Karadjic.

"These two main war criminals must be arrested and convicted for genocide by the International Court, for that is the least which the international community owes the survivors”, said the human rights organisation. The Security Council has called on the War Crimes Tribunal in two resolutions to complete its work by the year 2008.