According to the AP, prosecutors singled out an 1863 case in which a soldier named Henry Vanderwater was convicted of giving a command roster to a Virginia newspaper, which printed the information.
"This is the first time that the ICC has convicted anyone of command responsibility.
He has yet to be convicted of any crime, he still commands a slim parliamentary plurality, and his center-right coalition is favored to win any new election.
He was convicted of ordering members of a unit under his command to abduct, torture and murder Serbs in the eastern city of Osijek in 1991.
Carona's top two assistants — Haidl and Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo — were also convicted of crimes, and much of the former sheriff's command staff has left or been forced out.
Malek's second in command, a Syrian named Bikhit Mahmud, 25, was also convicted of abetting illegal immigration and faces five years in jail.
Since then, five council members have been convicted of misappropriating city funds and the town's second-in-command, Angela Spaccia, last week was sentenced to 11 years, eight months in prison for her role in the wrongdoing.
The United States military command said today that it planned to surrender an American Army sergeant, convicted of severely injuring a woman in a motor vehicle accident, to Korean authorities.
General Vides Casanova commanded the Salvadoran National Guard between 1979 and 1983; five guardsmen were convicted of the killings.
The latter was commanded by General Alexander Lohr, butcher of the Balkans, who was tried, convicted of war crimes and executed by Yugoslavia in 1947.
