01/21/12: The BBC reports that Chile's Supreme Court has convicted two retired generals of selling weapons to Croatia 20 years ago, in breach of a UN arms embargo. The former generals Hector Letelier and Vicente Rodriguez were sentenced to three years house arrest. The shipment of weapons and ammunition - disguised as humanitarian aid - was intercepted in Hungary in 1991 during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Former ruler Augusto Pinochet was also implicated in the deal.

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