UN judges deliver genocide verdict in case of 7 Bosnian Serb officers at Srebrenica
By APThursday, June 10, 2010
UN judges deliver genocide verdict on Srebrenica
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — U.N. judges are delivering their verdict against seven Bosnian Serb military and police officers for genocide and other war crimes in the U.N.-declared safe zone of Srebrenica in 1995.
It is the largest trial the Yugoslav war crimes trial has ever conducted and involved nearly 450 witnesses and three years of hearings that ended last year.
Five of the defendants are accused of genocide related to what the indictment calls the “summary execution of more than 7,000 Bosnian men and boys,” the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. Two face lesser charges.
The seven defendants subject to Thursday’s verdict are linked to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, whose own trial is in its early stages.
