Srebrenica massacre perpetrators lose appeals at UN war crimes tribunal
- 9 years ago
The UN war crime tribunal (ICTY)in the Hague has upheld sentences of five men convicted over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
They had been appealing their convictions for numerous charges including genocide.
Vujadin Popović and Ljubiša Beara sentenced to life imprisonment, the harshest penalty handed down by the court for deliberately targeting and killing people based on their ethnicity.
Drago Nikolić sentenced to 35 years’ imprisonment.
Radivoje Miletić sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment.
Vinko Pandurević sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment.
An organisation representing Srebrenica survivors was not entirely satisfied with the court’s verdict.
“I was very much hurt by the fact that the word “genocide” was not mentioned at all in the reading of the convictions, especially Miletic, whose sentence was lowered, while he is responsible for killing children, killing and raping women and killing old people,” said president of Mothers of Srebrenica, Munira Subasic outside the co
They had been appealing their convictions for numerous charges including genocide.
Vujadin Popović and Ljubiša Beara sentenced to life imprisonment, the harshest penalty handed down by the court for deliberately targeting and killing people based on their ethnicity.
Drago Nikolić sentenced to 35 years’ imprisonment.
Radivoje Miletić sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment.
Vinko Pandurević sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment.
An organisation representing Srebrenica survivors was not entirely satisfied with the court’s verdict.
“I was very much hurt by the fact that the word “genocide” was not mentioned at all in the reading of the convictions, especially Miletic, whose sentence was lowered, while he is responsible for killing children, killing and raping women and killing old people,” said president of Mothers of Srebrenica, Munira Subasic outside the co