Bosnia’s State Court on Thursday handed down prison sentences in a first instance ruling against two Bosnian Serbs for crimes against humanity, including rapes committed in the area of the eastern town of Visegrad in 1992.

The court sentenced Momir Tasic to 14 and Petar Tasic to 10 years behind bars.  

The two were found guilty of rape committed as part of a ‘widespread and systematic’ attack the Army of Republika Srpska along with ‘paramilitary formations’ from neighbouring Serbia against Bosniak civilians in the Visegrad area from May to August 1992.  

The court also acquitted a third person named in the indictment, Mirko Tasic.