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To date, 54 convicted for Srebrenica genocide, 781 years of prison and five life sentences

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POTOČARI/SREBRENICA, July 11 (FENA) – For the crime of genocide and other crimes committed during the fall of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, when more than 8,000 Bosniaks were killed, 54 individuals have so far been convicted by international and domestic courts, receiving a total of 781 years and five life sentences.

Former commander of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) Ratko Mladić was sentenced by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to life imprisonment for genocide and crimes against humanity during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995.

The Hague Tribunal also sentenced former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadžić to life imprisonment in 2019.

Besides Karadžić and Mladić, three other life sentences for the Srebrenica genocide have been handed down by the Hague Tribunal.

In 2010, a sentence was given to former VRS Chief of Security Ljubiša Beara, who died in Berlin in 2017.

In 2015, former Assistant Commander for Intelligence and Security of the VRS General Staff Zdravko Tolimir was sentenced; he died the following year.

Lieutenant Colonel of the VRS Drina Corps Vujadin Popović was also sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide, extermination, murder, and persecution of Bosniaks.

The Hague Tribunal issued its first ruling classifying the Srebrenica crime as genocide in 2001, sentencing former VRS general Radislav Krstić to 35 years in prison for aiding and participating in genocide. In 2024, Krstić wrote an open handwritten letter acknowledging the genocide against Bosniaks in Srebrenica.

Other VRS officers sentenced to long prison terms include Drago Nikolić (35 years), Dragan Obrenović (17 years), Momir Nikolić (20 years), Radivoje Miletić (18 years), and Ljubomir Borovčanin (17 years).

Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović, heads of Serbian security during the 1990s, were convicted in 2023 for a joint criminal enterprise that included the 1995 crime in Trnovo, where six Bosniak civilians from Srebrenica were killed.

Dražen Erdemović, a member of the 10th Sabotage Detachment, was the first person to plead guilty at the Hague Tribunal for the killing of captured Bosniaks. Arrested in Serbia in 1996, he was sentenced that same year to five years in prison, and his testimony later contributed to the conviction of Ratko Mladić.

In the past year, no verdicts have been reached in Bosnia and Herzegovina for crimes in Srebrenica, while court proceedings in Serbia are taking too long.

(FENA) S. R.

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