The former chief of the Yugoslav army has been jailed for 27 years for aiding Bosnian Serb forces responsible for the Srebrenica massacre and deadly four-year campaign of shelling and sniping in Sarajevo.

Lawyers for thousands of survivors of Europe’s worst massacre since the Second World War are suing the United Nations and the Dutch government.

FOUR paramilitaries seen in a video gunning down Bosnian Muslims near Srebrenica in 1995 were convicted of war crimes against civilians yesterday by Serbia’s War Crimes Court.

The UN war crimes tribunal has indicted former Croatian Serb leader Milan Babic for a campaign of ethnic cleansing early in the Balkan wars.