Two former Bosnian Serb soldiers, Mirko Pekez and Milorad Savic, were given reduced sentences in their retrial this week.
The Bosnian state court’s appeals chamber on Wednesday cut Pekez’s sentence to ten years and Savic’s to 15 years for assisting in the murders of 23 Bosniak civilians in the village of Tisovac, near Jajce, on September 10, 1992.
The men, both former Serb territorial defence fighters, were retried after their previous conviction was quashed because they had been wrongly sentenced under the 2003 Bosnian criminal code, which was brought in after they committed the crimes, instead of the potentially more lenient Yugoslav-era code.
