Serb Jailed For Massacre Moved To Norway

Blagojevic was detained in August 2001. Time spent in detention before conviction is counted as part of the sentence.

A former Bosnian Serb army commander convicted of murder and persecution for his role in the Srebrenica massacre was transferred to Norway on Friday to serve the rest of his 15-year sentence, the Hague Tribunal said.

The U.N. court cleared Vidoje Blagojevic of complicity in genocide on appeal last year but upheld other charges against him and so reduced his original prison sentence of 18 years by only three.

Around 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed after Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia fell to Serb forces in July 1995, in one of the most notorious episodes of the 1992-95 Bosnian war. Blagojevic helped with the transfer of Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica, which had supposedly been a U.N. "safe area".

War crimes suspects are held at the tribunal's detention centre in The Hague until their legal cases are completed. Those convicted have served their sentences in countries including Germany, France, Sweden and Britain.

Blagojevic was detained in August 2001. Time spent in detention before conviction is counted as part of the sentence.