The Hague Tribunal on Friday confirmed the life sentences of two former officials of the Srebrenica massacre.
Popovic was a lieutenant colonel in the army of the Bosnian Serbs. At trial, he was convicted of conspiracy to commit genocide.
Ditto for the old Colonel Ljubisa Beara.
For these two men, the judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia have upheld the sentence of life imprisonment.
Three other defendants had their sentences of imprisonment maintained or slightly shortened. These three individuals were found guilty of aiding or encouraging the crime of genocide.
Munira Subasic is responsible for an association that brings together the mothers of the victims of the massacre. Asked after the hearing, she said "highly regrettable that in reading the judgment, it was not mentioned the word 'genocide'." The one whose sentence was reduced Yet, according to this woman, "responsible for killing children and old men, murder and rape of women." But she adds, "the judges have considered that the murders of men of fighting age".
The Srebrenica massacre took place in July 1995, a few months before the end of the war in Bosnia. Numerous Bosnian civilians had taken refuge in the enclave in eastern Bosnia). Within weeks, the Bosnian Serb Army killed nearly 8,000 of them, men and boys. The instigator of the massacre, General Ratko Mladic is on trial by the court in The Hague.
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