April 12, 2007	Thursday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 23, 1428

AMSTERDAM: A Bosnian Serb army commander was transferred to Finland on Wednesday to serve a 20-year prison sentence for his part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the UN war crimes tribunal said.

Momir Nikolic, 52, admitted as part of a guilty plea that he was involved in coordinating and organising a Bosnian Serb army operation to kill more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys and deport thousands of women and children to Muslim-held territory.Nikolic, the former assistant commander for security and intelligence of the Bosnian Serb army Bratunac brigade, was sentenced to 27 years in prison in 2003. The term was reduced to 20 years on appeal.—Reuters