SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The Bosnian war-crimes court convicted seven Bosnian Serbs of genocide Tuesday in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica. Four others were acquitted.
Issuing their first sentence related to Europe’s worst massacre since World War II, judges at the war-crimes court sent three of the former policemen to jail for 42 years, another three away for 40 years and one for 38 years.
The seven men were found guilty of killing more than 1,000 captured Bosnian Muslim men and boys after Bosnian Serb forces overran the eastern town of Srebrenica — a U.N.-protected enclave for civilians during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
The seven hunted down Muslims who tried to escape the Serb roundup. Many victims surrendered after being told they would be safe but instead about 1,000 were brought to a warehouse and killed inside by automatic rifles and hand grenades.
The Associated Press
