Dragomir Milosevic, former Bosnian Serb Army General, was transferred on Wednesday to Estonia to serve his 29-year sentence for crimes committed during the war in ex-Yugoslavia.

By Uros Kovac

Milosevic was a commander of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps that sniped at and terrorized Sarajevo civilians during the three and a half year siege of the Bosnian capital. He led the corps for the last 15 months of the siege, from August 1994 until November 1995.

The Bosnian Serb general was sentenced in 2007 for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The tribunal reduced his sentence from 33 to 29 years in 2009 because the evidence showed no proof of him ordering the sniping, but only failing to prevent and punish the crimes committed by his subordinates.

Milosevic took upon the task of leading the corps from his former superior Stanislav Galic, who is now serving A life sentence in Germany.

The Sarajevo Romanija Corps directed shelling and sniping of civilians who were tending vegetable plots, queuing for bread, attending funerals, shopping in markets, or simply walking around Sarajevo. Some were even injured and killed in their own homes when sniper bullets found their way through windows. Thousands of civilians, most of them Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) were wounded and killed during the siege.

Milosevic is the second person to serve his sentence in Estonia. The other is Milan Martic, former wartime political leader of the Croatian Serbs.

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