The UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Tuesday overturned a ruling that had sent three Bosnian Croats to jail for the brutal massacre of some 116 Muslim men, women and children in a village of central Bosnia in 1993.
The court, which acquitted the three, also reduced the sentences it had earlier handed down to two other Bosnian Croats for the massacre, described by a judge as "one of the most vicious illustrations of man's inhumanity to man".
Mirjan and Zoran Kupreskic and their cousin Vlatko Kupreskic, who had earlier been sentenced to 10, eight and six years in jail, were acquitted.
Vladimir Santic, who had been jailed for 25 years at the first trial, had his sentence cut to 18 years, while the sentence against Drago Josipovic was reduced from 15 to 12 years -- The Hague, (AFP)
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