UN appeals court cuts sentence of Srebrenica officer

A UN appeals court in The Hague, Netherlands, today cut seven years from the 27-year sentence of a Bosnian Serb army officer convicted for his role in the massacre of more than 8,000 Muslims in the enclave of Srebrenica.

Momir Nikolic, 51, who was a local security and intelligence chief, pleaded guilty in 2003 to one count of persecution, as part of a plea bargain in which prosecutors agreed to drop genocide charges.