Serb leader sentenced to 13 years for war 'savagery'

A UN war crimes tribunal today sentenced Milan Babic, the wartime leader of Croatia’s rebellious Serbs, to 13 years imprisonment, saying his role in ethnic cleansing showed “ruthlessness and savagery”.

Babic, 48, once one of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic’s closest allies, was convicted in January of one count of persecution for the seven-month campaign against non-Serbs in the self-proclaimed Croatian Republic of Krajina.