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Serb Cousins Convicted of Burning 132 People Alive

Torched houses after locking Muslims inside

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 21, 2009 6:32 AM CDT

(Newser) – Two Serb cousins were convicted yesterday by the UN tribunal in the Hague of burning scores of Bosnian men, women, and children to death during the early 1990s. Milan Lukic was sentenced to life in prison for the deaths of "at least 132 Muslim... Read full story »

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