Judge says authorities were negligent of their duty to protect Radislav Krstić,whose throat was slashed while he served sentence for genocideA former Serbian general convicted of genocide for his part in the Srebrenica massacre has been awarded more than £50000 in compensation from the Ministry of Justice after his throat was cleave in a British prison. Radislav Krstić was attacked by “Islamic extremists” in his cell. The judge said the authorities were negligent of their duty to protect Krstić, who is serving a 35-year sentence imposed by the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague in 2001.
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Source: theguardian.com