Serb general gets 27 years

UN judges jailed Serb ex-police general Vlastimir Djordjevic for 27 years yesterday for his role in a plot to “change the ethnic balance in Kosovo” by terrorising the Albanian population.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia held him responsible for aiding and abetting the murders of “not less than 724 Kosovo Albanians” and the deportation of some 200,000 Kosovo Albanians.

Djordjevic, 62, is a former assistant internal affairs minister and head of the public security.