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UN court convicts Bosnian Serb of genocide

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Zdravko Tolimir, right, a former high-ranking Bosnian Serb army officer charged with crimes including genocide in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, crosses himself as he waits for the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to deliver its judgment. The tribunal convicted him and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

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The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted a former senior Bosnian Serb Army commander Wednesday of genocide for playing a key role in Europe's worst massacre since World War II and sentenced him to life imprisonment.