Eight Former Croatian Soldiers Convicted
Eight former Croatian soldiers were convicted Thursday of torturing ethnic Serbs in a wartime prison, four years after they were cleared of the same charges in a trial later annulled as being flawed. The district court in Split sentenced the soldiers to six to eight years on charges they participated in the torture and killings of ethnic Serbs and Yugoslav army officers at Split’s Lora military prison during the Serbo-Croat war in 1991. Full Story