Sarajevo  - The War Crimes Chamber of Bosnia-Herzegovina's State Court on Tuesday handed down verdicts against 11 Bosnian Serb genocide suspects, sentencing seven to a total of 284 years in jail and acquitting four.

Milenko Trifunovic, Brano Dzinic and Aleksandar Radovanovic received 42 years jail each; Milos Stupar, Slobodan Jakovljevic and Branislav Medan received 40 years each, while Petar Mitrovic was sentenced to 38 years jail.

All of them were declared guilty of genocide during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The court declared Velibor Maksimovic, Dragisa Zivanovic, Milovan Matic and Miladin Stevanovic not guilty and released them.

Sarajevo /Banja Luka  - Bosnian Muslim and Croat representatives in the Bosnian Serb Parliament vetoed Tuesday a new coat of arms for the Bosnian Serb entity, the Srpska Republic, on grounds that it reminded them of the label of a German beer.

Using the veto given to each ethnic group in the parliament in order to be able to protect vital national interests, Muslims and Croats in the Srpska National Assembly blocked the vote by the Serb majority to adopt the new coat of arms with a two-headed eagle on a red shield held by two lions.

London, July 26: War criminal Radovan Karadzic, the wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs, was so successful as a “miracle” healer that he travelled across Europe to treat wealthy Serbs.

The bearded fugitive, 63, is said to have made so much money curing a variety of ailments that he was about to start a new life in Russia.

Mina Minic, his tutor in Serbian capital Belgrade, said: “He learned quickly and soon became a name in his own right. He was preparing to move to Russia but decided to stay to learn more from me. It seems he left it too long.”

Vienna - Bosnian war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic travelled to Austria posing as a faith healer for local Serbs while evading capture, newspapers reported Friday.

Using the alias Pera, Karadzic treated several people in the Austrian capital Vienna, which has a large Serbian emigre community, the Kurier daily said.

Austrian security officials are investigating the reports, a spokesman for Austria's Interior Ministry said.

An unnamed woman in Vienna who was treated by Karadzic was quoted by Kurier as saying that she had long sought to have a child with her husband when an aunt told her about Pera and his healing powers.

Sarajevo - International administrator in Bosnia Miroslav Lajcak said he may consider returning travel documents to the Karadzic family once he is sure this would not contribute to the support network for suspected war criminals still at large, Bosnian media reported Friday.

After the top Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic was arrested late Monday in Belgrade, his wife and daughter called on the international community's high representative in Bosnia to give them back their travel documents so they can visit Karadzic while he is still in Belgrade.

In January Lajcak ordered the confiscation of the documents under the suspicion that the family were involved in the support network for war crimes suspects still at large.

Sarajevo - Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader indicted for war crimes, may lose his property in order to compensate the victims of his alleged crimes, Bosnian media reported Friday quoting a US official in Bosnia.

Sarajevo daily Dnevni avaz reported that Karadzic owes some 4.5 billion US dollars to a group of people who sued him before a US court for "organizing detention facilities where non-Serb women were systematically raped."