The Hague tribunal on July 20 sentenced Milan Lukic to life imprisonment and Sredoje Lukic to 30 years for crimes against Muslims in Visegrad, from 1992 to 1994.

The Trial Chamber, with presiding judge Patrick Robinson, found Milan Lukic, 42, guilty on all counts of the indictment -- burning at least 119 Muslim civilians, mostly women, children and the elderly, in two houses in Visegrad in June 1992, and of the slayings of at least 12 men on the bank of the River Drina and one woman in Visegrad, and the torture of non-Serb detainees at the Uzamnica camp.

Sredoje Lukic, 48, was convicted of aiding and abetting the burning of at least 59 civilians in Pionirska Street in Visegrad, on June 14, 1992, and torture at Uzamnica.

The Trial Chamber established that it had not been proven that Sredoje Lukic had taken part in nor been present at the burning of 60 Muslims in the Bikavac quarter of Visegrad, on June 27, 1992.

Burning Muslim civilians alive, in which Milan Lukic played a key role, Robinson described as the worst crime against humanity at the close of the twentieth century. Those horrific crimes, he said, stand apart by their callousness, cruelty, brutality and premeditation in the long history of man's inhumanity to man.

The trial against the Lukics, who are related, began on July 9, 2008, and the 40 witnesses of the prosecution included people who had survived the burnings.

Milan Lukic was apprehended in August 2005, in Argentina, and Sredoje Lukic turned himself in to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Sept. 14, 2005.

The Belgrade District Court sentenced Milan Lukic in absentia to 20 years in prison for the abductions and killings of Muslims from the village of Sjeverin, in the Priboj area, in 1992.