A Bosnian court on Thursday jailed 11 people -- mainly former police, military and political figures -- for war crimes including rape, illegal detention and maltreatment in camps.
The state court found eight men guilty of illegally detaining civilians and holding them in poor conditions in three camps during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
The inmates were tortured, beaten and subjected to forced labour. According to police sources, several inmates were killed on the three sites.
The toughest sentences were handed to Mustafa Djelilovic, wartime head of the municipal assembly of Hadzici southwest of Sarajevo, and Bosnian army officer Nezir Kazic, who were both jailed for ten years.
The other defendants received jailed terms ranging from five to eight years.
In a separate trial three former members of the Bosnian military received five and six-year terms for raping an underage Serb girl in Sarajevo in 1993
Bosnia's 1992-1995 war between its Croats, Muslims and Serbs was the bloodiest conflict in the series of wars that accompanied Yugoslavia's collapse.
It claimed around 100,000 lives and an estimated 20,000 women and girls were the victims of rape, which was used as weapon of war during the conflict.
More than two million people were displaced in a country which now has 3.5 million inhabitants.
