The International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague has convicted five former Bosnian Croat militiamen for the massacre of at least one hundred Muslim men, women and children in a village Ahmici in central Bosnia in 1993.

They were sentenced to between six and twenty-five years in prison.

A sixth defendant was acquitted.

The presiding judge Antonio Cassese said the killings were a vicious illustration of man's inhumanity to man, but he said the court had not tried those who ordered and planned the massacre.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service