المحكمة الدولية تحكم على مدانين بمذبحة سربرنيتشا

قضت محكمة مجرمي الحرب الدولية بالسجن المؤبد على الضابطين الصربيين السابقين "فوجادين بوبوفيتش" و"لجوبيزا بيارا"، إضافة إلى الحكم بالسجن 35 عامًا على الضابط "دراجو نيكوليتش"، وحكم بالسجن على أربعة آخرين لمدد تتراوح ما بين خمسة أعوام و19 عامًا؛ لإدانتهم بارتكاب جرائم حرب في مذبحة "سربرنيتشا"، التي راح ضحيتها سبعة آلاف شهيد مسلم بوسني عام 1995.

وتعد هذه القضية كبرى القضايا التي شهدتها محكمة مجرمي الحرب الدولية؛ حيث تضمنت 315 شاهدًا، إضافة إلى 5300 مستندًا قانونيًّا، وبدأت في يوليو 2006 إلى سبتمبر 2009.

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Two Bosnian Serb officers get life sentences for Srebrenica massacre

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has convicted seven former Bosnian Serb officers on charges ranging from war crimes to genocide in the court's biggest trial to date.

Four years after the trial began, a United Nations court has convicted two Bosnian Serbs on charges of genocide for their involvement in the 1995 massacre of around 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague gave life sentences to former Bosnian Serb army officers Vujadin Popovic and Ljubisa Beara. If their convictions are upheld on appeal, they will be the only individuals so far to be convicted by the court of genocide.

The court convicted one former army officer, Drago Nikolic, of aiding and abetting genocide. He received 35 years in prison.

The remaining four on trial - Milan Gvero, Vinco Pandurevic, Ljubomir Borovcanin and Radivoje Miletic - were convicted of various war crimes and received sentences of five, 13, 17 and 19 years respectively.

The trial was the largest ever conducted at the ICTY, admitting more than 5,300 exhibits and hearing 315 witnesses. It opened in July 2006 and closing arguments finished last September.