Bosnian War Crimes Sentence Is Upheld

War crimes judges upheld a 10-year prison term for a Bosnian Croat paramilitary commander convicted of rape and torture for failing to stop a sexual assault by a soldier under his command during Bosnia-Herzegovina’s 1992-95 war. The appellate chamber at the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia rejected every ground upon which the defense contested the 1998 judgment against Anto Furundzija, 31. The presiding judge, Mohammed Shahabuddeen of Guyana, said “the appellant was not denied the right to a fair trial,” and “the appeals chamber has not been persuaded as to the existence of any legal errors which require it to intervene.”