A retired Bosnian Muslim forces general became sentenced to 8 years in jail on Thursday for battle crimes devoted by overseas jihadists during Bosnia’s brutal Nineties struggle.

Sakib Mahmuljin, 69  tried for his position on the pinnacle of the command chain of foreign opponents that done greater than 50 Bosnian Serb prisoners of struggle in Vozuca and Zavidovici within the northeast of the united states.

Mahmuljin was at the time commander of the 3rd corps of the Bosnian military, composed especially of neighborhood Muslims.

The crime was carried out by the “El Moudjahid” unit attached to his corps, which was made up of hundreds of mainly foreign jihadists from Africa, the Middle East and some Western countries who joined forces with Bosnian Muslims.

Mahmuljin was found guilty by a Sarajevo appeals court of “war crimes against wounded and sick people” and “against prisoners of war”, including “murder” and “inhumane treatment”.

As a commander, he “failed to prevent” these crimes from being committed and “knew or had every reason to know” that members of this unit were preparing to commit crimes, the court said.

The verdict is final and Mahmuljin can no longer appeal.

This is one of the few convictions of former senior Bosnian military officials for crimes committed by foreign jihadists during the Bosnian intercommunal conflict that killed nearly 100,000 people between 1992 and 1995.

The war crimes in question took place between July and October 1995, in the wake of two Bosnian offensives.

The “El Moudjahid” unit had received a sinister reputation due to the crimes dedicated in opposition to Bosnian Serb or Bosnian Croat prisoners of battle.

Most of the Islamist warring parties left the country After the war under pressure from the USA, which at the stop of 1995 hosted the negotiations on the Dayton peace settlement which correctly ended the war.