Two top-level Bosnian Serb officials were convicted by the war crimes tribunal at The Hague and each sentenced to 22 years in prison.

Mico Stanisic was interior minister of the Bosnian Serb republic, Stojan Zupljanin was a senior security official.  The tribunal said they had taken part in a "joint criminal enterprise with the objective to permanently remove non-Serbs from the territory of a planned Serbian state".

The two were found guilty of torture, persecution and murder during the 1992-1995 Balkan War.  Prosecutors presented evidence of the Muslim prisoners being murdered, beaten, raped, and in some cases forced to cannibalize the corpses of other prisoners.

Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic are still on trial at the same tribunal.

About 100,000 people were killed during the war.