Bosnian Serb general Zdravko Tolimir dies in The Hague


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  • Tuesday, 09 Feb 2016

Zdravko Tolimir, a Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, is escorted by U.N. security guards as he arrives in the courtroom of the the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal who delivered its judgment in his appeal case in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, April 8, 2015. REUTERS/Peter Dejong/Pool

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb General Zdravko Tolimir, serving a life sentence for genocide including the massacre at Srebrenica during the early 1990s war in Bosnia, died in The Hague on Monday evening, a court spokesman said.

The former head of military intelligence in the Bosnian Serb army, was convicted of crimes including the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995, in what remains Europe's worst massacre since World War Two.

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