Landmine Victims - 2006 Pakistan Landmine Blast, Bernard B. Fall, Byron G. Highland, Danny Roxo, Dedeline Mibamba Kimbata, Denzil Kobbeka (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: 2006 Pakistan landmine blast, Bernard B. Fall, Byron G. Highland, Danny Roxo, Dedeline Mibamba Kimbata, Denzil Kobbekaduwa, Dickey Chapelle, Dov Lopatyn, Eric Alva, Jagath Jayasuriya, Jerry White (activist), Kaveh Golestan, Ken Rutherford (political scientist), Motola, Nalin Angammana, Nate Thayer, Nihal De Silva, Norman Lind, Radislav Krsti, Robert Capa, Robert D. Maurer, Superman: Deadly Legacy, Vijaya Wimalaratne. Excerpt: Radislav Krsti (Serbian Cyrillic: born February 15, 1948) was the Deputy Commander and later Chief of Staff of the Drina Corps of the Army of Republika Srpska (the Bosnian Serb Army) from October 1994 until 12 July 1995. He was promoted to the rank of Major General in June 1995 and assumed command of the Drina Corps on 13 July 1995. In 1998 Krsti was indicted for War Crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague in connection with the massacre of around 8,000 Bosniak POW and civilians on July 11, 1995 during the Srebrenica massacre - Europe's worst atrocity since World War II. On August 2, 2001, Krsti became the first man convicted of genocide by the Tribunal, and was sentenced to 46 years in prison. He was only the third person ever to have been convicted under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The sentence was subsequently shortened to 35 years in prison when an appeal court upheld a lesser charge for aiding and abetting genocide. Krsti was born in Ne alji ta in the Vlasenica region of Northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia. He attended primary school in Vlasenica and elementary school in Han Pijesak, where he also completed his secondary education in a grammar school. Krsti describes his young years as very peaceful, and the community in which he lived as "heterogeneous" and very...