The State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday sentenced Radomir Susnjar, a wartime member of the Bosnian Serb forces, to 20 years' imprisonment for his involvement in setting at least 57 Bosniak civilians on fire in the eastern town of Visegrad at the start of the war.

In June 1992, Bosnian Serb forces raided the village of Koritnik near Visegrad and took the villagers prisoner in a house in Pionirska Street in Visegrad.

They set the house full of captured civilians on fire and killed anyone who tried to flee the burning house.

The indictment reads that it was Susnjar who forced the captured civilians to enter the house and he locked the property when all of them had come.

Susnjar threw a grenade into the house with the imprisoned villagers and opened fire from his automatic rifle to prevent anyone to run out of the house in flames, according to the indictment.

After the war, he fled to France from where he was extradited in June 2018.