Serb convicted of war crimes moved to Danish jail

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A former Bosnian Serb official sentenced to 30 years in jail for organising the expulsion of Croats and Muslims from northwestern Bosnia in 1992 will serve his sentence in Denmark, the Hague Tribunal said on Tuesday.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Radoslav Brdjanin headed the Autonomous Region of Krajina (ARK) Crisis Staff, one of several committees set up by Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to ethnically cleanse Serb-held areas.

The 1992-95 Bosnian war claimed more than 100,000 lives.

The U.N. court found him guilty of aiding the persecution, torture and killing of non-Serbs and also instigating the forcible deportations of the non-Serb population from the Krajina region.

In 2004, he was sentenced to 32 years jail but this was reduced by two years in 2007 after the appeals chamber reversed his convictions for torture in camps and detention facilities.

The tribunal said Brdjanin was transferred to Denmark on Tuesday, but gave no further details.

(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee; Editing by Caroline Drees)