A convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal has been transferred from a British jail to Poland. Source: AAP
A FORMER Bosnian Serb general who was the first person convicted of genocide by the UN Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has been transferred to Poland to serve out his sentence, prison officials say.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted Radislav Krstic for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims and in 2004 handed him a 35-year sentence and sent him to Britain.
But after he narrowly escaped a murder attempt by Muslim fellow-inmates at Britain's Wakefield prison in 2010, the ICTY decided to seek a new location for security reasons.
In 2012, it filed a request to Poland, which has few Muslim residents. A Warsaw court approved the request later that year.
The 66-year-old Krstic "was admitted to the detention centre in the central city of Piotrkow Trybunalski on Thursday," said Bartlomiej Turbiarz, a spokesman for regional prison officials.
"He will serve out his sentence in a one-person cell that will be video-monitored 24 hours a day."
Krstic is the first war criminal to serve time in Poland at the behest of the ICTY.
Poland is among 17 countries that have offered to handle convicts sentenced to prison by the tribunal, which is based in The Hague in the Netherlands.
Krstic's forces were responsible for the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica in July 1995 when they overran UN peacekeepers in the supposed "safe area".
It was deemed the worst atrocity on European soil since World War II.
All told, Bosnia's 1992-95 war claimed 100,000 lives.
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