Serbian Nikola Sainovic (C) greets a member of his defense team as he takes his seat in the courtroom of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague January 23, 2014. REUTERS/Peter Dejong/Pool
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Appeals judges have shortened the sentences of three former Serbian officials jailed for war crimes committed during the Kosovo conflict, overturning convictions for specific instances of murder and sexual assault.
Thursday's ruling leaves just a handful of cases still unfinished at The Hague tribunal set up at the height of the wars that followed the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia from 1991, which saw some of Europe's worst atrocities since the end of World War Two.
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