 In 2008, Lukić was sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity and war crimes.The British journalist Misha Glenny, author of "The Fall of Yugoslavia", stated that the revival of the Serb nationalists in Yugoslavia in the 1990s was one of the most ""hideous and frightening aspects of the fall of communism in Serbia and Yugoslavia"" and ""this breed, which finds nurture in the perpetration of unspeakable acts of brutality, encapsulates all that is irrational and unacceptable in Balkan society.