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Global News Podcast

UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague delivers last major verdicts

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The court increased prison sentences for two Serbian officials convicted of training death squads during the Bosnian war in the 1990s. Also: A BBC investigation reveals new evidence of the trauma suffered by Ukrainian children taken to Russia, and the rare albino giant anteater discovered in Brazil.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:06.3

I'm Jackie Lennon at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday, the 31st of May.

0:10.9

These are our main stories.

0:12.4

The UN Warcrimes Tribunal in the Hague has delivered the verdicts in its final major case,

0:17.6

increasing the sentences of two Serbian security officials convicted of training death squads.

0:23.5

A BBC investigation reveals new evidence of the trauma suffered by Ukrainian children

0:28.3

removed to Russia and Sudanese officials say they've suspended ceasefire talks with their paramilitary rivals.

0:37.5

Also in this podcast, astronomers have detected a huge plume of water vapor spurting out from

0:43.9

one of Saturn's moons.

0:45.2

What's surprising about this is just the size of it, you know, it's 20 times the size of the moon.

0:51.3

We begin in the Hague where the UN Warcrimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has delivered

1:01.6

its last major verdict. It's increased prison sentences for two top former Serbian state security

1:08.4

officials, Yovych Estanishich and Franco Simatovich, after a legal process lasting two decades.

1:15.6

They also served 15 years instead of the 12 they were originally given, the two men are both in

1:21.2

their 70s. From outside the court, our correspondent Anna Holigen told us about them and their crimes.

1:27.5

They're hugely significant because they were the link between the Serbian state infrastructure

1:32.8

and the atrocities that were committed on the ground. So they were instrumental in setting up

1:37.5

an armed police unit that was then deployed to commit murder, persecution, forcible transfer

1:44.0

and other crimes. The reason why this matters so much is because, especially for the survivors who

1:49.5

have come to the Hague to witness justice today, it means that there's no more denying that the

1:55.7

government, the Serbian government under Slobodan Milosevic, was responsible for what the prosecution

2:00.6

here called ethnic cleansing. Just as I came out of court a couple of hours ago, I spoke to a woman

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